I wish you could help, too, Wisewoman. I am completely unskilled in crafts.

My project is not painting the floor, but putting down brown contractor's paper with wallpaper paste. One scrunches it, and it mottles, and starts to look like flagstone. One can heighten the effect by painting or rubbing on colored glazes. Then several poly coatings.

It is a very dark floor. I got a PM from a decorating discussion group that suggested rice paper -- which is the only unflammable paper, so far as I know. I'm experimenting in the closets. I'm going to see how much the rice paper costs and how it looks.

I think flooring is too expensive. I mean -- all we do is walk on it, for goodness sakes.

I've also been reading how a lot of laminate floors release formadelyde gas. Some research claims that environmental pollutants trigger auto immune diseases in the category with mine. So I've become more aware of things that may pollute my environment. Poly coating isn't entirely pure of course, not like wool carpet, or wood flooring. But it doesn't seem to have as bad a record as laminate.

What is a felting workshop? What is felting? I believe that you spin and weave, and make many beautiful things, do you not?