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Felt Making
City & Guilds offers a series of 4 courses taking you from a beginner to a professional maker. Kate Horner has developed these courses starting with the basics of feltmaking; moving on through understanding how design ideas can be worked in felt; to preparing a professional portfolio.
All courses are a progression of 10 assignments.
Attended courses are held in Carnforth, Lancashire. For attended courses start date and current prices please email 
Online courses will be introduced from January 2008.
Tintagel by Kate Horner
City & Guilds 7722 – 15 Level 1 Certificate in Felt
30 Guided Learning Hours
This is an introduction to feltmaking for the beginner or a textile student wishing to extend their skills base.
It concentrates on developing good feltmaking skills through a range of samples and exercises that builds into a reference file.
The assignments include:
How to make felt using a variety of wools and techniques.
Simple design considerations, such as colour, shape, line and texture
Working with texture using a range of fibres.
A simple 3D piece using a resist.
This course will be offered as a one-week summer school in Carnforth or as an on-line course.
Exploring Textures by Meg Layfield Level 1 Felt
We are a specialist centre in felt making and we offer this course every year for you to discover the potential of this craft. Through the course you will develop the skills to create good quality felt and be shown how to use different materials and approaches to develop your ideas. Many students go on to further courses with us.
This is a 30 hour course leading to a Level 1 City and Guilds Qualification, if desired. The course fee is £200 plus £75 registration and admin fee for City & Guilds if students wish to have this. Many take this course purely for interest, but some people like to have the qualification for their professional development.
The course will be held at Carnforth High School, Lancashire.
Katherine Taylor Level 2 Felt
City & Guilds 7822 – 67 Level 2 Certificate in Felt
120 Guided Learning Hours
1 weekend a month for 11 months for 1 year for the attended course in Carnforth, Lancashire.
This is available as an on-line/distance learning course.
This course builds on the skills learnt at level 1 by establishing good feltmaking techniques with design considerations so that you can plan and make a range of felt pieces. There is a short design module, a sample file and 2 individual projects. Through the projects you are shown how to prepare and develop ideas, and see them, through sampling, to a final piece.
Katherine Taylor Level 2 Felt
City & Guilds 7922 – 28 Level 3 Certificate in Felt
210 Guided Learning Hours per year
1 weekend a month for 11 months for 2 years.
Students will be expected to commit to the equivalent of 1 day per week of home study.
This course is for the serious designer maker who has good felt making skills and wants to explore design approaches to develop individual pieces.
The design module is a third of the course, studying colour, shape, line texture and form through art media. You are taught the theory and then develop projects based on themes of their own choice.
Approaches to felt are studied alongside the design work, with you working through to make complex final pieces. You are encouraged to look at the work of artists and makers throughout the course to support your work.
As well as a folder of samples you work on individual projects under the themes of: a panel, an accessory, 3 innovative samples, a wall hanging and a 3D item. You are shown how to plan, develop and record a project in a professional way.
Angela Barrow Level 3 Certificate Felt
City & Guilds 7923 – 52 Level 3 Diploma in Felt
210 Guided Learning Hours per year
1 weekend a month for 11 months for 2 years.
Students will be expected to commit to the equivalent of 1 day per week of home study.
This is for the professional felt maker who wishes to put together a portfolio that describes yourself as “a maker”. With this you can market yourself in a feltmaking career such as maker, teacher and a range of other areas.
In the course you will apply and develop the design and craft skills learnt on the certificate course.
The first year is a research year exploring a theme of the your choice through a design module and a series of felt samples. The samples are designed to push your knowledge and technical understanding as well as artistic development. The work of makers throughout history and in other countries as well as contemporary makers is explored in a practical way. It is important to keep this year open ended, so that you are kept open minded about possibilities and do not shut down any of these too soon by focusing on developing items.
Students who have been through this process have been surprised at their maturity as artists and makers during the second year; they have certainly hit a new level in their work.
The second year projects have broad headings to allow for individual style and interpretation to come through. The themes are:
Apparel
Interior
A set of
Use of colouration and/or embroidery at stages of feltmaking
A low relief and textural piece
Ideas for these projects will be developed from the first year work.
Angela Barrow Level 3 Diploma Felt
On-line course fees are:
Level 1 - £275
Level 2 - £600
Level 3 - £1200
Hybrid Courses will be plus Summer School Fees. Hybrid courses combine the advantages of being able to work at home at your own pace with sharing your work with fellow students during a week's summer school.
For more details visit www.artqualifications.co.uk or contact:
© 2007 Kate Horner
