Felt-making collections and ingredients
Hand dyed ingredients to inspire in your felt-making. We dye specifically with felt-makers in mind . I love to wet and needle-felt, ideally combining both in personal projects. For me interesting textures are what felt making is all about.
Hope Jacare hand-dyed silk
I love to dye silk fibres and fabrics, both new and vintage. These are all great for adding texture to felt-making, spinning, mixed media and embroidery. Please ask if you are looking for something special for a project.
Hand-dyed plant/specialist fibres
What a huge arrange of unusual fibres are available these days. I love to dye different fibres and use them in my own work....perhaps you will find someting new and inspirational here for you to try.
Hand-dyed yarns and threads
Yarns are just a wonderful ingredient in feltmaking and creative textiles. We love combining them in our mixed media textiles pieces. I hand dye silk, wool, plant based fibres and synthetic yarns/threads.
Our very own "Hope Jacare"kits
From years working as a designer for greetings cards I have a huge range of designs that I wished to try as needle-felting kits. Also keen with many of them to add on extra embellishment through stitching and beads.
Hand-dyed fabrics and ribbons
I think the fabrics we use in our pieces can have such an impact. I love to dye new and vintage upcycled fabrics to experiment with in our textiles pieces, hopefully you will find some interesting pieces here.
Hope Jacare Creativity packs
Searching for vintage and new elements to comine in our creativity packs is one of my favourite pastimes. Hopefully you will enjoy using our collections of elements in your next creative adventure.
Gifts and cards
A small selection of gifts and cards that Hope(my daughter) and I create in our West Kilbride studio can be found here. Always happy to gift wrap and send direct to someone if that helps.
Dyeing House Gallery
We are thrilled to be working with the fabulous Dyeing House Gallery in Italy. We offering a small range of their fibres for use in our workshops. These are also available to our online customers here. I love their colour palette and hope you will too.
Wet Felting Workshops
In 2021 I was thrilled to receive a Creative Scotland award. This will allow me to develope my own creative practice as well as introduce wet felting workshops. This year I am excited to offer a nuno felted scarf and a wet felted Landscape/ seascape option.
Mixed Media Textiles workshop dates
Mixed media workshops were a huge hit in 2021. It's a fun day and I hope leaves you wanting to create more mixed media textiles pieces. We start the day with dyeing, paper decoration and ideas for making embellishments. Then onto creating an individual piece after lunch. New For 2022 we will be using handmade watercolour paints.
Hope Jacare 2D/3D Needle-Felting workshops
Join us in the studio for a 2hr workshop to create a landscape, seascape or floral picture to take home. 3D gnomes also available.