European Felt Festival - Histoire de Laines
European Felt Festival - Histoire de Laines
European Felt Festival - Histoire de Laines
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<strong>European</strong> <strong>Felt</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
The year 2009 has been <strong>de</strong>clared «the<br />
International Year for Natural Fibres » by O.N.U,<br />
and the first <strong>Felt</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> will be held in Felletin,<br />
Creuse (France), from may 1st to may 4th 2009.<br />
A real craze through Western Europe already,<br />
this will be the fisrt ever event of the kind in<br />
France.<br />
Born from cooperation between women<br />
felt-makers and the wool industry support<br />
committee, it will be the second wool event<br />
organized in Felletin. A local group of crafts<br />
<strong>de</strong>signers are taking part in the <strong>de</strong>velopment of<br />
the wool industry ans its skills, which involves<br />
felting quite naturally.<br />
The felt festival wishes introduce the public to a<br />
large range of felt products and to its different<br />
uses in textile, art or industrial productions. Dues<br />
to its varied and easy uses, felt is becoming very<br />
popular in creative leisure activities.<br />
The professionnal si<strong>de</strong> of this felt festival will be<br />
centred on training sessions and exhanges with<br />
other european networks of felt-makers.<br />
Jacques CHABRAT, Prési<strong>de</strong>nt <strong>de</strong> l’Office <strong>de</strong> Tourisme <strong>de</strong> Felletin<br />
& Patrick MOUTARDE, Chambre d’Agriculture <strong>de</strong> la Creuse<br />
Programme of the <strong>Felt</strong> festival<br />
More than 10 000 visitors expected in Felletin<br />
The <strong>Felt</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> : An introducing to wool felting<br />
�A 4 day artistic felting exhibition, with a prize awared by the public.<br />
A hand-ma<strong>de</strong> felt crafts market in the centre of the city (Saturday and Sunday), with over 40 art<br />
crafts market showing their skills and selling their works.<br />
�Sale of wools from the local mills.<br />
�Showing of documentary films about the traditionnal techniques troughout the world.<br />
�Educational exhibitions for the public and schoolchildren.<br />
�A presentation of the different possibilities offered by felting : yurt-making, insulation…<br />
�Introductory workshops to manual felt-making, aimed at children and adult beginners.<br />
�Gui<strong>de</strong>d tours of the Terra<strong>de</strong> wool mill, the only public one in the Limousin aera.<br />
A <strong>Festival</strong> for professionals over 3 days :<br />
�Specialized workshops and training sessions (technique, Home <strong>de</strong>coration, Housing)<br />
�Technical conferences and talks (producers, wool industry)<br />
�A <strong>de</strong>signers’ contest, « <strong>Felt</strong> all around », emphasing on the use of felt products in the house, with a<br />
prize awar<strong>de</strong>d by a jury of professional people.