Eszter BUKITS

1995, Szombathely, felter

She initially learned the craf of felting from Katalin E. Szaka and later from Anikó Árvai and Mihály Vetró at the Nádudvar Vocational School of Folk Crafs. She has participated in numerous competitions and exhibitions with her works, winning the first prize in the group category at the 2015 Itinerant Competition and the second prize in the solo category at the Békéscsaba National Conference of Textile Art in 2020. She received a gold diploma at the Living Folk Art exhibition in 2021. Felting has become part of her everyday life. She is active in her workshop in Szombathely, while in the summer she holds workshops for children and adults in camps. She uses traditional motifs and considers it as important to be able to make her works fresh and wearable for people of today. She established the brand ‘BESTi felt’. In her workshop she makes home textiles, toys, clothes and other tools of everyday use.