Felt Making

Skill Stage 4

Advanced Online Felt Course

Advance your felting skills and techniques with our Skill Stage 4 Felt online course. This course has been specifically designed for more experienced crafters and artists who are ready to expand on the techniques they have previously learnt to discover their own unique artistic voice and expression.

Ideally you will have completed the Skill Stage 3 (or Level 3) Felt course or have demonstrable experience of creating a variety of different projects and pieces.

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Course Features

12 Modules

Work your way through 12 Felt Making modules each designed to teach new skills and provide a better understanding of your subject.

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Advanced Skill level

For Felters with a lot of experience and ideally has completed our Skill Stage 3 Felt Making course.

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 2 years to complete this course. Each module takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Course Details

This course consists of 12 modules which focus on getting students to develop their own style and designs, while giving students valuable professional practice. As a City and Guilds accredited course, this is a comprehensive distance learning Felting course. Not only will you teach essential techniques, you’ll also enhance your own creativity and design skills.

Course Modules

There are around 410 hours of course content and materials split across 12 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

Self chosen design project: Students chose their own design projects
Study the history of domestic sheep and properties of various fleeces
Learn transparent and bonded techniques
Explore different fibres: silk, paper, soluble, and animal fibres
Natural dye techniques: Dye, fabric paint and resist technique
Create pieces inspired by a contemporary designer or maker
Applique and finishing samples
Design and create your own felt art panel
Explore a range of specialist and advanced techniques
Work with Metal Sheet and thread.
Experimental metalwork samples along with a written and illustrated study of felting.
Create two extensive collections of advanced felting technique samples
Professional practice
Creation of own design and final assessment pieces

Delivery & Assessment

The course is supplied as a distance learning course where course materials and tutor assessments are delivered digitally and work is returned to your tutor via digital presentation.

Your coursework will be reviewed by your tutor and periodically by an Internal Quality Assessor, to ensure the appropriate quality standard is maintained. You will be provided with written feedback in a timely fashion (usually within 10 days) and, if needed, you will be able to re-submit altered work. You can contact your tutor at any time to request your work to date be reviewed and suggestions for future progress be made.

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Course Timescales

There is around 410 hours of course content/materials and it is usual for students to take between 6-8 weeks to complete each module. Students can take up to 2 years to complete, however it is up to the individual student how quickly they wish to return work to their tutor for assessment.

A six-month contingency is available, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation, extending the course life to 30 months (2.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

This City and Guilds accredited Felt course is an advanced study programme aimed at crafters and artists who want to enhance their skills and commercialise their work.

Ideally students will have a lot of demonstrable knitting experience or must have previously completed our Skill Stage 3 course. At this level students will be able to continue developing personal research and technical skills to form a unique collection of work at a professional level.

Courses at this level provide students with an opportunity to develop their own individual style, experiment with ideas and develop their technical skills to form a collection of work at a professional level.

If you haven’t previously completed a Level 3 or Skill Stage 3 course then please do check with us first before enrolling onto this course.

Courses at this level again include a Professional Practise module making them great for craft business owners. Whether you teach classes, run a craft store or sell your own products you’ll be taught valuable business and marketing skills including working to client briefs, establishing costing models and how to promote your business and services.

Our skill Stage 4 courses are also great for those with a business ambition. Our course includes an entire module called professional practise, which is aimed at getting you business ready. We teach valuable industry skills to really give you that professional, competitive edge.

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