Wet Felting - Purse - Experience at our Blended Monkey Studios - July 2026
This morning's wet felting textile art experience with the wonderfully talented felting artist Dannielle Green as guest tutor was a great success. The heritage craft of wet felting (the oldest textile technique, originating in Central Asia among nomadic cultures during the Neolithic and Bronze Age) is such a fascinating process.
Danielle guided our lovely small group of ladies through all the stages, starting with choosing their beautiful merino wool colours and all the way through to completing their gorgeously unique purses/bags.
We held this experience in our Crafts Studio located in the pretty cottage gardens of our Blended Monkey Studios. It was another hot day, so the air-conditioned studio was a blessing.
In true Blended Monkey style, the group of students were provided with plenty of refreshments throughout (catering for all dietary requirements) - including home-baked Fanoggins shortbread and gluten-free treats.
It was a pleasure to witness such an interesting, unique process; magical to see how the fibres knit together with water. The fulling technique of rolling to shape - and as you roll the fibres reduce and knit together; creating a more robust fabric. The students were able to add embellishments in the form of silks and sari fibres - some with a metallic sheen.
We'll be adding the next wet felting workshop dates to our website soon.
For more info about all our other wonderful guest tutor group workshops, visit our website https://www.blendedmonkey.co.uk/category/group-workshops
Our experiences make ideal CRAFTY GIFTs & we can post or email you a complimentary personalised voucher if you'd like to make any of our experiences a present for somebody.
Laying out the merino wool at the beginning of the wet felting process Choosing and placing the merino wool ready to be wet felted Gorgeous orange merino wool Gluten-free shortbread rounds and and Fanoggins bakes Group placing their wool fibres Working on both sides of the wet felted fabric Working on both sides of the wet felted fabric Lovely tangle of beautifully-coloured wools Using bubble wrap to protect the fabric Working on both sides of the wet felted fabric Gorgeous burnt orange felted fabric with additional embellishments Love the contrast in this black and pink colour combination Beautiful wet felted purple and green purse Happy students with their gorgeous wet felted purses One of Dannielle's pigeon creations Beautiful wet-felted purses created in today's wet felting workshop Some of Dannielle's work Lovely wet-felted purse with red as the base colour and lots of embellishments Gorgeous lime green purse with lots of accent embellishments Black and pink/purple wet-felted purse Lovely burnt orange purse Happy group of wet felting students here in the Blended Monkey Studios! Happy group of wet felting students!
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