mankens!

We searched for tailor's makes yesterdasy in Istanbul and decided on two. The mankens arrived this eveig..very exciting ad we immediately dressed them in fel;t garments...Sally and Bob I am calling them.

New Feltwork

Hanging some new felt work in the shop window. Playing with wool and silk.

feltmaking

Daily work..feltmaking

Polish feltmaking group in Istanbul

We had a great 3 day workshop with ouroup from Poland...they were pleased to know we had discovered the word for thankyou in the night...however rigth word...wrong spelling! We fit a lot of work in to 3 days in order to create a small rug, hat and bag. As with all our courses..we had as many wonderful pieces as there were students. We even had some fun by sending them out to kick their rugs in the park across the street with the Aya Sofya in the backdrop. We entertained both the locals and and the tourists alike!

Finally in our new shop

After alot of work to transform this empty space in a gallery workshop..we are ready to start felting again. Thanks to Mehmet's sons Mustafa and Sahli (and a bunch of other guys)..we organized this space quickly. We are ready for workshops here, we will be hosting agroup of students from Poland next week. Our neighbors here are happy to see us working and tourists are slowly finding us. We are still trying to figure out how to set up the galery space upstairs but for now we have things in the big glass window for folks to enjoy.
We hope people will stop in when they are visiting Istanbul or plan to organize a felt class here. We are open to 1-8 students depending on the project size.