By Ruth Lane
This richly illustrated how-to e-book is a complete reference for varied felting suggestions, together with needle felting, rainy felting, and nuno felting. With those easy-to-follow, step by step instructions and thousands of full-color photographs, you’ll have the capacity to discover those effortless tasks that offer enjoyable possibilities that you can attempt the innovations. Galleries of distinct felted designs and creations by means of popular cloth artists act as attractive examples and proposal to pursue the pastime your self.
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Technique ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Working in small sections across the drum will be easier than attempting to remove the fibers in one piece across the width of the drum. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• the drum carder should be cleaned between carding runs of different types of fiber or colors. to clean the carder, use a hand carder or dog slicker brush. Hold the brush over the drum and turn the handle counterclockwise. Pull the brush up frequently to pull fiber away from the drum.
The soap will dissolve and become gooey. Then add this soap mixture to water for the soapy water used during felting. Wet-Felting Supplies The most important supply needed for wet felting is wool. There are many types of wool as noted in the wool and fiber section. The types of wool most often used for wet felting include Merino, gotland, Corriedale, falkland, Blue-faced Leicester, Pelsull (or Pelssau), Polwarth, Romney, finn, and Icelandic. Many additional types of wool can be used for wet felting.
80 to 113 g of wool) • powdered acid dyes in a variety of colors • dust mask or respirator mask Different types of fibers, and even different breeds of wool, accept dyes differently. Some fibers accept dye at lower temperatures than others. if a variety of fibers are in one dye pot, the fibers that require higher temperatures to dye may not have as much color as other fibers. this is because the fiber that dyes at a lower temperature takes up most of or all the dye before reaching a high enough heat for the other fiber to dye.