Hand-Felted Table Runner

Structure, Texture, and Material Attention

This self-paced online workshop invites you to slow down and work attentively with wool. It is designed for anyone who enjoys making with their hands and is curious about how materials respond to time, touch, and care.

Rather than focusing on surface decoration, this workshop centers on material attention—learning to notice how fiber thickness, direction, pressure, and edges shape the felt as it forms. Working primarily with natural-colored wool, you will explore how subtle structural decisions can create quiet visual interest and depth in a hand-felted table runner.

You will choose one of three design approaches, each offering a different way of listening to the material:

• Layering and accumulation

• Directional movement

• Negative space and edges

All three approaches share the same foundational techniques, allowing you to focus less on following instructions and more on observing, adjusting, and responding to the felt as it develops.

The workshop is designed for a home studio and a flexible rhythm. Lessons are presented in clear, manageable modules so you can pause, reflect, and return to the work without pressure to rush or perform.

By the end of the workshop, you will complete a hand-felted table runner shaped by your own attention and decisions—simple in appearance, rich in texture, and grounded in the nature of the material itself.