Let's talk 'Nuno'!
It doesn’t sound very English - so what does ‘nuno’ mean and what has it to do with wet felting? Developed in the early 90s by Polly...
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Jane Evans
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Benefits of Wet-felting to relieve stress and have fun.
It’s a mad mad world in which we’re living. Wet-felt making and other crafts, involve detailed working at a methodical pace, which is...
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Jane Evans
- Oct 26, 2021
- 2 min
What we have learnt
It seems a while since I restarted workshops from my riverside studio in mid-Wales. It’s been absolutely great to welcome people back...
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Jane Evans
- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
Shibori in Feltmaking
How can the Japanese art of shibori be used to create fabulous shapes in wet-felting? In its simplest sense, shibori is a method of...
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Jane Evans
- Aug 11, 2021
- 2 min
Blue is the colour
When I want some time off from the magic of felt-making I look to magic of a different kind – Cyanotypes. A cyanotype is an image created...
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Jane Evans
- Jul 4, 2021
- 3 min
History of Felt-making
We may think that felt-making is a ‘new’ craft when we look at the array of beautiful felt art, wearable nuno-felted clothing, felt...
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Jane Evans
- Jun 16, 2021
- 3 min
Keep Creating
It’s been a long year (and a bit)! The pandemic kept us all indoor for months on end and the freedom we had before Christmas 2020 was all...
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Jane Evans
- May 6, 2021
- 2 min
Despite being May 6th – “May the fourth be with you”!
What a strange month we’ve just encountered – so sunny, but the coldest and driest April for donkey’s years! And now, as we enter May we...
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Jane Evans
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Easter at Fabulous Feltings
I know I say this a lot and perhaps it’s a sign of getting older, but the time is flying by! Who would have thought, a year ago, that...
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Jane Evans
- Feb 24, 2021
- 2 min
Spring is on its way
Where has the time gone?! These last two months have flown by and the more astute amongst you will know that I didn’t even find the time...
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Jane Evans
- Jan 3, 2021
- 2 min
A Very New Year
As the saying goes – “Only take the good things forward”. I’m delighted to announce therefore that I shall commence online ‘back to...
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Jane Evans
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
What a year!
This time last year I was looking forward to a family Christmas at home and in the final planning stages of a trip to India which I had...
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Jane Evans
- Nov 8, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome to a COVID and politics ‘free’ zone!
It’s going to be a long winter so there’s never been a time when creativity and innovation has been more important (not in our generation...
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Jane Evans
- Oct 2, 2020
- 2 min
Keep up your spirits
With Storm Alex’s wind and rain battering my window I have succumbed to lighting a fire. I suppose that means autumn is really here and...
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Jane Evans
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
First Day of Autumn
The first day of meteorological autumn already….. What a strange old summer it was – the months just merging into one another as we...
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Jane Evans
- Aug 4, 2020
- 2 min
Emerging from Lockdown
Another month has passed – I’ve never known such a period of supposed inactivity to go by so quickly. We here in Wales are at last able...
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Jane Evans
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Bring on Summer again!
As I write this I am looking at torrential rain through my window – what happened to the glorious weather we had in May? Other than a...
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Jane Evans
- Jun 4, 2020
- 2 min
The New Norm
Are you getting used to the restrictions and new ways of working or screaming with frustration and yearning to return to the ‘old’ norm?...
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Jane Evans
- May 3, 2020
- 2 min
Lockdown
How the world has changed since I last blogged! I hope that you and your families are keeping healthy. Are you going stir crazy with the...
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Jane Evans
- Mar 29, 2020
- 2 min
An Ever Changing World
It’s been ages since my last blog and it seems like the whole world has changed in that time. I went to India at the end of February,...
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