Designer Elizabeth Rubidge Exhibits @ American Fine Craft Show

Elizabeth Rubidge, The Felted Garden, Westport, a fashion accessories designer specializing in scarves, joins 90 artisans and artists at the fifth American Fine Craft Show at the Brooklyn Museum November 18-19.

On her website she wrote: “I discovered felting about 9 years when a friend opened a package from Germany. I didn't know what it was but I knew what I could do with it.” She was looking at felted scarves.

She was a stay-at-home mom with a background as a successful children’s clothing designer and a serial crafter. “Using wool and water, I started to create roses and leaves that popped off the scarves. I've moved away from some of the flowers and leaves, and although they're still a significant part of my designs, I find interest and pleasure in developing textures and patterns of a more organic nature.”

Visitors to the show can take in the magnificent exhibitions at the Museum. Concurrent ones include “Rodin at the Brooklyn Museum: The Body in Bronze,” that opens November 17; “Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt;” “Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo,” and “Arts of Korea.”

For more information visit www.brooklyncraftshow.com.

Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Directions: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org...

Hours: Saturday Nov. 19: 11 am – 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 20: 11 am-6 pm