can inspire you:The process of the “Wool-n-Dance”:
* We promote awareness of natural fibres, mainly WOOL!
* The "Wool-n-Dance" artists, together with helpers, lay a bottom pattern and build a dancefloor of up to 8m diameter by spreading layers upon layers of wool fibres across a sheet of fabric: we need approximately 60kg on 50m2.
* The fibres are then sprinkled with soap flakes before being covered by a top pattern and a second layer of fabric. At this stage the dancefloor will be about 40cm thick. During the night / morning the dancefloor is made wet, activating soapflakes to start the felting process.
* Now the active part of the "Wool-n-Dance" can begin on the soapy surface, lots of motivated / enthusiastic people dance to the rhythm of the music / band. So the fibres fuse together into a giant felt carpet with an end thickness of about 4 cm.
* Around the dance floor the "Wool-n-Dance" crew give workshops in felting, spinning, giant-knitting and weaving in constant turns to keep the people on the dance floor!
* Besides taking home their home felted, knitted, spun or woven creations… you will take home a lot of experiences, inspirations and community spirits!
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What is the secret under our feet?
When the Wool-n-Dance is in action, we can’t actually see the preparations of it. We filmed the creative part of laying a pattern with fibres and recommend to show the film on big screen beside |
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Here you can see it - Documentary: “Birth of a carpet” (click on for film)
2.2 Our Workshop
around the “Wool-n-Dance” carpet:
 FELTING - balls & buttons - mats & bags - hats & scafs - shoes & coats - and many others |
 SPINNING - potato spinning - hand spindle - spinning wheel - spinning yoke - and playing yarns |
 WEAVING - four stick loom - back strap loom - table loom - shoebox loom - and many others |
 KNITTING - Finger knitting - Toothpick knitting - Circular knitting - Underarm knitting - 4/5 needle knitting |
 GIANT KNTTING - knitting with different long and thick wood needles until 1.2m Knittingneedles |
 KNTTING 'NELLY' - simple circular finger knitting in different sizes for young and old |
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in London  Fabrications, Hackney |
in Switzerland Negozio Valmaggese, Bignasco |