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Woolly soap Tutorial

February 18th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Tips, tutorials

Tutorial for beginners.

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A couple more blankets

February 3rd, 2010 · 16 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art

Well, before I put these photos in the archive and forget about them, here are a couple more blankets that I made in Argentina.
The first on is a baby blanket. Very soft, made of merino with silk and bamboo. The flowers are made of prefelts done with hand dyed wool.
Esta primer mantita es para una [...]

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Prefelts

April 29th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Tips

Prefelts are pieces of felt which one can buy or, if you are not too lazy, make your self. The difference with the normal felt is that these sheets of felt aren’t fully felted. They are ussually used by felters whom especialize in wall art, tapestry or rugs; or indeed any felted work with lots [...]

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Felt rug making

April 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Felt, Tips

I saw a link to this video in a forum I participate. It’s from a company called Peace Industry which designs and makes felt rugs. Very pretty indeed. They have on their website a film of an iranian felt maker, demonstrating the traditional way of making felted rugs. Very intricate designs done by one man, [...]

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Handfelted bags

January 17th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art

Handfelted bagsOriginally uploaded by Marian Florcita
These past days I’ve been on a felting spree. I needed a small handbag for myself and along the way I discovered a shape which I like, it’s comfortable and everything I need fits!
The first black one is the result of a scarf gone wrong. So I was left [...]

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