In response to some of your comments re. the silk laps I also find that they can ‘catch’ your skin as you are laying them out but definitely not as much as silk hankies do. What I like to do if my hands are dry is to rub them in olive oil about ten [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wet felting’
Silk laps again and still tidying!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, workshops, tagged Clasheen, Felt, Felting, ICA, silk, silk laps, wet felt, wet felting, wool, workshop on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Off to tangle with some super soft yak (and short film to watch)
Posted in Felt, Felt in Focus, tagged Cathy, Cathy FitzGerald, Copenhagen Climate Change summit, Felt, Felt in Focus, felt sculpture, Felting, felting with yak, large felt sculpture, once i counted birds, wet felting, yak on October 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It’s wet and windy outside today and I can quite see why those yaks need to grow a soft undercoat during the winter months to keep themselves all warm and snug! Luckily I was able to buy some beautiful soft yak fibre from Blas and Jamie at Urban Fauna Studio recently and now is the [...]
Ready to prepare the felting kits at last!
Posted in Felt, tagged Felt, felt scarf, Felting, felting kit, felting kits, merino, mulberry, mulberry silk, ponge, ponge silk, silk, Studio, texture, wet felt, wet felted scarf, wet felting, wool on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was supposed to be going to a finance workshop (associated with the tourism course) tomorrow but as my fever is definitely back with a vengeance I have decided to stay at home. Initially I was thinking of laying out and starting a larger garment flu permitting, but since the postman has just arrived with my [...]
Mystery of the lost post, incorporating pongee silk and the Clasheen Winter Swap
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged Clasheen Autumn Swap, Clasheen Crafty Swap, Clasheen Winter Swap, Etsy, Etsy shop, Felt, Felting, Flickr, merino, mulberry silk, ponge, ponge silk, silk, wet felt, wet felting on October 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, I have just spent an extremely frustrating and puzzling time trying to locate my blog post and images of the printing on felt from yesterday. I knew that it had gone live thanks to your welcome comments so imagine my surprise this morning when I was giving a bit of a demo on blogging to a couple [...]
Pictures of the collagraph on felt and thanks Alan!
Posted in Felt, workshops, tagged collagraph, collagraph on felt, felt print, Felting, flet, printing, printing on felt, wet felt, wet felting, workshop on October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A big thanks to Alan who has decided this morning to give my old laptop a spring clean and has given me a bit of time to take some long overdue pictures (with his camera, mine is still awol!) to upload here and to Flickr.
Firstly here is a picture of my collagraph on paper. As [...]
Printing is fun ….. collagraphs on felt! Pictures of the nuno, silk and linen wrap
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, tagged collagraph, embellishments, Fabric, Felt, felt scarf, felt wrap, Felting, fibre, intaglio, Knit and Stitch, linen, nuno felt, printing ink, printing on felt, short fibred merino, silk, wet felt, wet felting, woolm merino on October 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
What an exciting day I had yesterday. Because I really didn’t know exactly what we would be doing at the South East Textile Group monthly workshop I was totally floored to discover that we would be learning how to print collagraphs on to paper and felt using intaglio plates, I had been thinking along the lines of lino or [...]
Printing on felt
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, workshops, tagged Felt, Felting, needle punched felt, Nuno, nuno felt, prefelt, printing, printing on felt, South East Textile Group, wet felting on October 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Printing on felt is one surface decoration that I have not tried yet but hopefully today will change all that! I am just off now for my monthly workshop (have missed all during the summer unfortunately) with the South East Textile Group and apparantly printing is what we will be learning, specifically printing on felt or so [...]
Merino, silk and linen combination, an experiment in nuno felt, fantastic necklace arrives in the post
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, tagged Felt, Felting, Nuno, nuno felt, wet felting, wet felt, felt jewellery, nuno felting, bead, felt flower, wrap, felt flowers, felt wrap, felt scarf, nuno scarf, nuno felt scarf, nuno wrap, Tabmade, felt cuff on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, my package of fibres and fabric was every bit as good as anticipated! In particular I was delighted with both the dark grey and the zebra striped 16 micron merino as well as the dyed linen (or flax) fibre and the ponge silk. I have worked with raw linen fibre before and found it very interesting to use [...]
My nuno felt skirt!
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, tagged Felt, Felting, Nuno, silk, linen, chiffon, nuno felt, wet felting, wet felt, Sigrid Bannier, mosaic nuno, nuno felting, mosaic nuno felt, silk chiffon, nuno neck wrap, nuno felt skirt, felt skirt, nuno skirt, mosaic felt on October 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I thought it was about time that I uploaded some images of the nuno mosaic skirt that I made during German felter Sigrid Bannier’s visit to Ireland during August.
The main body of the skirt is made from four cotton gauze nuno mosaic panels and the cummerbund section around the waist is also nuno felt, this time hand [...]
Exciting news re. felting wool, Clasheen Autumn Swap and last chance to view Sculpture in Context
Posted in Felt, Swaps, nuno felt, tagged Felt, Felting, Nuno, merino, wool, embellishing, nuno felt, wet felting, fibre, sculptural felt, embellishment, swap, exhibition, clasheen Crafty Swaps, Filzrausch, felt vessel, Sculpture in Context, felt bag, Icelandic wool, Clasheen Autumn Swap, felting kit, findings, felt purse, felt necklace, felt brooch, Dublin, Iceland, Icelandic on October 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There never seem to be enough hours in a day to fit in all the things that I really want to do. Luckily my flu is now 90% over so I am starting to plough through all the paperwork and outstanding letters/emails etc. that built up over the 4 weeks while I was away from home. My [...]
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