Joomchi Felting is an exploration in pockets, openings, felted lace, screens, and felt conglomerations. A layering of surfaces that expose new elements through the various pockets or openings. What will you show and what will you hide?

Joomchi is a Korean art traditionally practised in paper. This class explores similar principles, but in feltmaking, while making a seamless shaped felt vest using resists. We will explore pattern making, shrinkage rates, and creating light weight felt for garments. We’ll practise the techniques of making felted lace, silk fabric surface manipulation, and using multiple resist materials to create surface conglomerates with different end results.

Fiona Duthie is a fibre artist, writer, and craft educator based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. She first encountered feltmaking in 1996 and it immediately became her medium and passion. Raw wools, shibori shaping and dyeing, resist shaping and dyeing, stitches, prefelts, layering, embedding, carving? she explores the world through surface design in feltmaking. Fiona has exhibited her work in Canada, New Zealand and the UK.