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Ruth Walker, feltMaker RWfM logo




Ruth Walker, Feltmaker




Schedule: Future, Present & Past


Establishments of Availability


"Brim with a Twist" Examples


Purse with Two & One-Half Pockets


Pouch w/Dual-Action Cord


Co-ordinating Pairs of Products


Ever-Insulating Teapot Domes


From the Asteroid Belt: Planet Pincushions


Good Golly: Great Balls O' Felt!


What to do If: Care Index


Product Descriptions & Retail Prices


Workshops & Demonstrations


Useful & Possibly Even Educational Links


Your Comments, if You're Not Too Shy


Contact Information




Ruth Walker, feltMaker

Colorful, Highly-textured, Hand-felted Accessories of Hand-dyed Wool, Permanently Moth-proofed

In the immortal words of "Singin' in the Rain" screen star, Lina Lamont,

"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."



Ruth E. Wiedenhoeft Walker  
Ruth Walker, feltMaker  
573-815-0485  

rewwalker@charter.net  





Out and About...
3 Brims on a Rug
Brims With Twists
Ruth Walker, feltMaker Columbia,MO

  • Upcoming:

  • Five Intense Afternoons of Felting with the fibers class of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. 2-6 June 2008. Contact Professor Laura Strand for details.

  • Estes Park Wool Market, 12-13 June 2008. I'll be one of the vendors.

  • "Hats & Purses on the Ball", 17 & 18 June 2008 (pick one or two days satisfyingly intense felting) just after the Estes Park Wool Market, at The Studios of Bristol along the "Silver Highway" above Creede, Colorado. Contact Teri Inman to register.

  • Five Days O' Felting: Intensive 5-day introductory wet felting workshop at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, 7-11 July 2008, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

  • Roll a Ball, Felt a Purse! Intensive 1-day wet felting workshop with 2-d and 3-d resists at the Midwest Felting Symposium, 23-27 July 2008, in Madison, Wisconsin.

  • Goldilocks and the Numerous Indigo Solutions: Eight Fibers, Five Variables and the Lye-Thiox Stock, or Studies in Indigo: Cellulosic & Protein Fibers, 20-24 August 2008 at Prochemical and Dye in Fall River, Massachusetts.

  • "Hats & Purses on the Ball", 1st & 2nd of October 2008 (pick one or two days satisfyingly intense felting) just prior to the Taos Wool Festival, at the Espaņola Valley Fiber Arts Center between Santa Fe and Taos in New Mexico. Contact Espaņola Valley Fiber Arts Center 325 Paseo de Oņate Espaņola, NM 87532 (505)747-3577 info@evfac.org for information, as it is not yet listed on their calendar.

  • 25th Annual Taos Wool Festival, 4-5 October 2008 at Kit Carson Park, Taos NM, come wind, rain, sun, or snow! One of the best-known wool festivals in the country. Booth 56 between Teri Inman's Bristol Yarnworks and Elsa.


  • Recently...
    • ACC St. Paul Fine Craft Show, 18-20 April 2008, St. Paul RiverCentre, St. Paul, Minnesota. What a great place for felt hats! and the jackets constructed from luminous, handwoven, handpainted warps of Suza Wooldridge (Suza Designs).

    • "Great Balls O' Felt!" Artrageous Friday event at Bluestem Missouri Crafts, Friday 6-9 pm, 25 January 2008. Come, make truffle-sized felt balls with us in Bluestem's big window! 13 South Ninth St., Columbia, Missouri.

    • "Roll a Ball -- Felt a Hat or Purse." Workshop with the Weavers' Guild of St. Louis on Saturday, 5 January 2008, at the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis. Registration is through the Weavers Guild.

    • ACC Fine Craft Show November 2-4, 2007, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lovely weather; very, very quiet show floor. Booth 1612.

    • Other than hats: My work won three major awards -- Grand Champion (Long Vest above and above left), Reserve Grand Champion (a pouch that can be worn over the shoulder or tied about the waist), and Lorraine Mooney Award for Best Use of Colorado-New Mexico-Texas Fibers (the aforementioned pouch) -- all three awards in two items in the Garment competition at the 24th Annual Taos Wool Festival October 6-7, 2007, at Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico. Rain or shine, a premier collection of works of wool from the wool of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Booth 55 with Teri Inman of Bristol Yarnworks.

    • ACC Fine Craft Show August 10-12, 2007, at the "Festival Pavilion" (Pier 3 at Fort Mason) in San Francisco, California, Booth 805. Fine American art and craft. Beautiful, cool weather.


  • Juried Artist Member, The Best of Missouri Hands
    • Dedicated to hand-felting colorful, highly textured, useful wool felt objects, well crafted and suitable to their purpose and to your delight.
    • We use local, other domestic and foreign wool breeds to suit the uses to which they are put.
    • Merino and other fine breeds such as Blue-faced Leicester, Cormo, Rambouillet/Merino, Romney/Merino and other fine breed crosses are used for the ground felt, while the lustrous and extravagantly coiled locks of the Wensleydale, Blue-faced Leicester, and Lincoln sheep provide embellishments along with various yarns and open-weave silk or cotton fabric.
    • For long-term protection all items have been permanently moth-proofed.
    Wholesale and Retail Inquiries welcome.




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    Ruth Walker, feltMaker
    Colorful, highly-textured hand-felted wool accessories for head, hands, hearth, and home; permanently mothproofed.

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    Schedule: Future, Present & Past  |  Establishments of Availability  |  "Brim with a Twist" Examples  |  Purse with Two & One-Half Pockets  |  Pouch w/Dual-Action Cord  |  Co-ordinating Pairs of Products  |  Ever-Insulating Teapot Domes  |  From the Asteroid Belt: Planet Pincushions  |  Good Golly: Great Balls O' Felt!  |  What to do If: Care Index  |  Product Descriptions & Retail Prices  |  Workshops & Demonstrations  |  Useful & Possibly Even Educational Links  |  Your Comments, if You're Not Too Shy  |  Contact Information



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