Beautiful Silks Workshops presents: Soo Mee Kim

*Fiber Artist

*Visiting Professor of Ulaanbaatar University, Mongolia

*Head of Felt Design Institute in Ulaanbaatar University

Felt: Design, Layout, Wear SHAWL Friday 30th November 2012

Soomee's work photo provided Soomee Kim

Soomee Kim teaches design and this shows in her student results. Link here to see pictures of her 2011 series of workshops at Beautiful Silks.

Doors open 9am for a 9.30 start, concluding at 4pm.

Total fee with materials $200

A materials kit is provided along with a classroom assorted bits bag - and you can preselect your colour choices for this class when you register. The kit includes prefelt, wool top, fabric, printed devore velvet - a pack of harmonious colours. Juat advise your selection when you book. Bookings are secured by full payment, but we also can take expressions of interest and advise when the workshop is filling up. Booking Code SMK07 If you want to continue on with the reversable long waistcoat following this workshop, link here

If you want to use Beautiful Silks equipment please advise at time of booking, this is provided at no charge, but you have to leave at Beautiful Silks it as it is our resource.

If you would like to prepurchase to take home your tools, sprayer, plastics, bubble wrap etc this can be provided as your Feltmaking hardware kit - $25.00 Please preorder!

Soomee supervising class work, note the garden sprayer very useful tool - Beautiful Silks, 2010

Workshop description:

Using prefelts, silk fabric wool tops, silk fibres and interesting textured fabrics, you will make a completely reversable felt wrap vest garment. A pattern is standard, you try the pattern on, recut to fit your body size if nescessary, this only takes 30 minutes maximum. See the requirements list - all is included in your fee, and the to bring list is what you need to bring along with you.

Tutor Profile

*Fiber Artist

*Visiting Professor of Ulaanbaatar University, Mongolia

*Head of Felt Design Institute in Ulaanbaatar University

SooMee Kim began her career in textiles at University in Seoul, majoring in Batik and Weaving/Tapestry.

She completed her Masters of Applied Art (Textiles) in Korea; and also studied Textiles at Box Hill Institute Melbourne for a year in 2006.

It was in fact her introduction to felting in Melbourne, which is now her home, which ignited her on-going passion for this textile medium.

She has had numerous exhibitions in Australia and Korea and her work, which displays a fusion of Oriental and Western influences.

She has returned to Korea to teach at her Alma Mater and is a regular visiting Professor teaching felting at Ulaanbaatar University in Mongolia.

As well as teaching abroad, she has given numerous workshops in Melbourne. SooMee’ s work displays the influence of both the Korean and Australian landscapes and her love of each; and it is constantly evolving without losing a strong focus on design and an unerringly accurate ability to make colour sing.

To enrol email: workshops@beautifulsilks.com or call (03) 9419 7745