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Jantine works with so-called raw fleece. The first day is spent learning theory and making samples. This exercise is essential for understanding how the felting process functions and for getting insights in how designing color-fields works. The longer you felt, the more your wool will shrink. Knowing when to stop is sometimes tricky.

The second day is reserved for the actual felting of the plaid which measures about 100 x 140cm when finished, depending on how long you felt it.

Jantine counts with about 5 productive hours a day and welcomes beginners to join the workshop.

The wool that felts ideally can be purchased for an extra cost from Janine. If you happen to have wool that can be used for felting, please bring it along!

The plaid pictured in Jantine’s course description for the workshop two days later can of course be felted during this workshop as well.

Jantine Hos

Jantine is a renown artisan-felter based in the Amsterdam area. Her works are internationally published and vastly exhibited in the Netherlands, e.g. at Viltexpo Arnheim, ArtZaanstad and CaKtwo Castricum. She does not consider herself a „technical felter“, rather her passion lies in „interpreting nature’s organic aspects“. She says that her experience in felting on an almost daily basis brings her deeper and deeper in the possibilities of the material. That results in works that aesthetically reflect aspects of roughness/rawness, but also have the soft and valued tactile quality of wool.

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