A Wearable Rose Garden

Create a floral nuno felt stole designed to be worn, not just admired on the table. You will learn how to think about placement, movement, drape, and where the most beautiful details should fall on the body.

Felting in Volume

Learn Alisa’s special approach to felting texture-rich surfaces: no rolling, no flattening. The surface is secured with an electric sander and then shaped through tossing, kneading, lifting, shaking, and stretching — so the felt stays soft, flowing, and alive.

Rich Floral Texture

Work with silk roses, wool curls, lace, guipure, fibers, and fine merino wool to build a surface full of depth, softness, and movement — rich, but not chaotic.

About the course

Rose Garden Stole is a step-by-step nuno felt course with Alisa Bordo, dedicated to creating a richly textured floral stole with silk, fine wool, wool curls, lace, guipure, fibers, and soft sculptural volume. In this course, you will create a beautiful wearable piece — but you will also learn much more than one project. Alisa shows how to build a floral surface thoughtfully: how to plan the composition, place the most expressive elements where they will be visible on the body, combine materials, preserve texture, and felt the piece without flattening its volume. One of the most valuable parts of the course is Alisa’s approach to felting in volume. Instead of rolling the stole and pressing the surface flat, she uses a careful sequence of electric sander work, tossing, kneading, lifting, shaking, stretching, and shaping. This helps create felt that is thin, stable, flowing, and alive. The finished stole can be romantic, elegant, festive, dramatic, or wild — depending on your colors and materials. Your Rose Garden does not need to look exactly like Alisa’s. The course gives you the structure, technique, and confidence to create your own version. This course is suitable for confident beginners and experienced feltmakers who love nuno felt, floral surfaces, rich texture, and wearable felt art.

feltmaker shows her work

Meet Alisa Bordo

Alisa Bordo creates felted accessories with a strong sense of movement, beauty, and drama. Born in Kyiv and now living in Mannheim, she works with nuno felt, silk, wool curls, lace, guipure, fibers, and floral textures to create wearable pieces that feel alive. Her teaching invites students into a world of rich surfaces, intuitive composition, and wild elegance — where a stole or accessory becomes a true textile statement.

Curriculum

15 Chapters · 17 Lessons

  1. 1

    Welcome! How to use this tutorial

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      How the learning goes

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      Handouts for download

  2. 2

    What Is Nuno Felt? Meet Alisa Bordo

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      Nunofelting: Video

  3. 3

    Materials & Tools

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      Materials, Tools % Substitutions

  4. 4

    Planning Your Rose Garden: Sketch, Color, and Composition

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      Making a sketch Video

  5. 5

    Creating the Wool Base

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      Creating the Wool Base Video

  6. 6

    Silk Decor & Rose Elements

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      Silk Decor & Rose Elements

  7. 7

    Adding Wool Curls (Locks) & Decorative Fibers

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      Adding Wool Curls (Locks) & Decorative Fibers

  8. 8

    Felting & Fulling: Bringing the Surface Together

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      Felting & Fulling: Bringing the Surface Together

  9. 9

    Felting in Volume

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      Felting in Volume: Do Not Flatten the Rose Garden

  10. 10

    Felting First Aid: Pause, Dry, Repair

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      Felting First Aid: Pause, Dry, Repair Video

  11. 11

    Felting in Volume for Texture-Rich Designs

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      Untitled Lesson

  12. 12

    Finishing Touches: Shape, Details & Beading

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      Finishing Touches: Shape, Details & Beading

  13. 13

    Color Harmony & Creative Vision

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      Untitled Lesson

  14. 14

    Student Work: Rose Garden Variations

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      Student works

  15. 15

    Final Words: Your Own Rose Garden

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      Final Words: Your Own Rose Garden

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      Share Your Work

What students are saying

Alisa’s floral nuno felt courses have inspired many feltmakers to create their own richly textured shawls and stoles. Students often speak not only about the beauty of the results, but also about Alisa’s special way of teaching: her sense of composition, her love of texture, and her ability to bring lace, silk, wool curls, fibers, and personal memories together into one living textile. These testimonials were translated from Russian.

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“Alisa taught me how to combine things that seemed impossible to combine — and turn them into dream shawls full of memory: a piece of lace from a wedding dress, guipure found at a flea market in Venice, small fragments with their own stories. Her techniques helped me bring all these materials together into one living textile.”
Marina L.

Mannheim, Germany

“Oh my God, what beauty! I couldn’t stop watching. I have already made five shawls — and I am still just as inspired.”
Natalia T.

Kyiv, Ukraine

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“Alisa herself is charming, mysterious, and full of vital feminine strength. Her work carries the same energy — and so does the way she teaches. There is beauty, depth, and a quiet power in both her pieces and her storytelling.”, a handbook that makes photography feel simple! It covers everything from camera settings to post-processing in a way that actually makes sense.
Svetlana S

London, Britanny

Create Your Rose Garden Stole

Create your own Rose Garden Stole. Learn Alisa Bordo’s floral nuno felt technique step by step — and make a wearable piece full of texture, movement, and personal meaning.

€75,00

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