What if the wool that farmers often discard could become the building block of future textiles? In this hands-on session, Boldwool introduces FeltFabriCk: an innovative process that fuses local wool with up-cycled fabrics into strong, expressive, and repairable materials. The workshop is both tactile and reflective: you’ll engage with wool as fiber, but also as part of an ecosystem where design, farming, and circular economy meet.
Learn how undervalued wool is transformed through enzyme-assisted washing and needle-felting. Together with students from ArtEZ from Collectie Arnhem 2025 experiment with layering and felting techniques to create your own small FeltFabriCk samples.
Explore the stories behind the material, from the farm where the wool was sheared, to the design possibilities it unlocks. No prior textile experience required, just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.
Time Slots
12:00-13:30
14:00-15:30
16:00-17:30
Free event
Collectie Arnhem TWENTYFIVE
How can we design fashion collectively? Collectie Arnhem TWENTYFIVE answers this through treating collaboration not only as a method, but as a material in itself. This collaborative collection by 16 third-year students began with the word ‘craftsmanship’, a term unravelled and reshaped into an experimental, creative energy. A concept where care, decay, and time meet. Drawing inspiration from the imagined afterlife of a forgotten wardrobe, where garments materialise the erosion of memory: coats and hats made of Dutch raw wool are transformed using wet felting and ombré dyeing, mimicking the slow fade of fabric left to age and warped by imagined decades of wear. Each piece bears the marks of many hands, stitched, sculpted, and shaped through equal contribution. In doing so, Collectie Arnhem TWENTYFIVE proposes a fashion practice rooted in shared authorship, where creative synergy becomes both the design language and the message.
Boldwool — Wool as a System
Boldwool is a regenerative textile initiative founded by Lennart van Bolderick, turning undervalued Dutch wool into new forms of value for design, ecology, and local economies. Through its innovation FeltFabriCk, a hybrid material made by needle-felting coarse, local wool onto recycled base fabrics, Boldwool creates durable textiles for footwear, outerwear, and interiors. Each product is traceable to its origin and designed for repair, ensuring fair returns for farmers and low environmental impact.
Boldwool is not just about products, but about building an ecosystem: reconnecting sheep, soil, and society, and proving that wool is not waste, but a regenerative ally for the future