İKONİUM STUDIO is offering a series of 1 and 2 day felt workshops with felt masters Mehmet Girgic and Theresa May-O’Brien

Felt Table Runner, Painterly Technique

Dec 9 & 10      9-5              $250

Felt Bag, Seamless

Dec 11        9-5        $125

Felt Vest Workshop,Silk and Wool

Dec 12 & 13   9-5      $250

Felt Hat Workshop, Seamless

Dec 14    9-5      $125

Felt Accessories workshop Beads & Flowers

Dec 15      9-5      $125

Felt Scarf,Lightweight Silk and Wool

Dec 19    9-5 $125

Join us for Wine & Cheese & Shopping

İKONİUM STUDIO  Open House   Dece 18           10-10pm

Hope to see you there!!!!!

Located at Windswept Farm on Old Rte 20 in New Lebanon,NY

We are nearly up and running.  There will be gallery space as well as workshop space. 

Anyone interested in felt making classes can keep checking the website or contact Theresa at

felter508@yahoo.com

607 435 5215

*the  Turkish yurt will be up soon!!!!!

Felted Hat and Headgear Workshop

1 Day Class

October 10,2009

Painterly Felt Workshop

2 Day Workshop

October 11,12 2009

EasternGreat Lakes Fiber Conference

Chautauqua Institute

contact: eglfcregistration@yaoo.com

                   1 716 361 6606

Felt Rug workshop with Theresa May-O’Brien

Ithica, NY

October 23,24,25 2009

at the :

Harford Exchange

380 Route 38
Harford, NY 13784
607-844-9566

workshop sponsored by  17 century suds

contact Wendy : 607 844 4319

sales@17thcentyrtsuds.com

Workshop price $425 includes all materials :

natural dye Turkish wool,  17c liquid soap, therapeutic  hand cream,  etc

Students in this workshop will learn contemporary felt techniques developed by felt masters Mehmet Girgic of Konya Turkey and Theresa May-O’Brien of USA.

Students will learn to blend colors  and layout wool in a painterly fashion, using hand rolled wool for delicate line drawings as well. The varrious construction and  rolling techniques for durrable rug creation will be taught  to create a useable artpiece.

                            Roxbury Arts Group / Roxbury New York  / officemgr@roxburyartsgroup.org

Mehmet Girgiç /Konya Rug producer, dye master and feltmaker has moved his beautiful collection of hand crafted halı, kilim and felt to a lovely location in the Eminönü district of Istanbul.  The balcony of the new shop ovelooks the Küçük Ayasofya and the Golden Horn.  Anyone interested in visiting the shop or taking a feltmaking workshop can contact us:  thefeltmaker@yahoo.com or felter508@yahoo.com for more information.

The adress for the new shop is: #80 Küçük Ayasofya Caddessi/ #2 flat /Istanbul, Turkey

Painting With Wool

2 Day workshop
Friday and Saturday
October 16 and 17
9:00 AM – 4:00PM BOTH DAYS

Class Fee – $350
Class Size – 10 students

Contact  for registration:   http://www.sheepandwool.com/workshops/index.asp

Instructors will also have a booth with felt & textile  art for sale as well as traditional  Turkish felt Yurt

3 Day rug making workshop in the Catskills
August 21,22,23 2009
Roxbury,New York
Instructor Theresa May-O’Brien
For workshop details contact Jean Stone at Roxbury Arts Group:
officemgr@roxburyartsgroup.org
This contemporary technique for highly detailed felt designs laminated with cottton fabric will offer students unlimited surface design possibilities. This technique is one which which May-O’Brien has been developing with Turkish Felt Master Mehmet Girgic. The style has allowed the artist to first work with traditional Turkish designs and then open up the possibilities to the numerous decorative patterns of the world.

Students will work with a natural dye palette of merino wool which has been crafted by the artisans at Kececi. Students will be encouraged to expand this palette by mixing and blending to fit the students unique taste. Students will first organize their design and then apply hand crafted wool outlining to emphasize the detail of the design. This outlining will be followed by color inlay work and lastly the backing construction. After all layout is complete, students will practice varrious methods for felting and then fulling the goods into a durrable art piece. Finnished rug will measure aprox 2′x3′