Showing posts with label felting texture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label felting texture. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

New Dimension

The textured and raised surface of these layered shingles and the 3D nature of this seaweed on the sand


is what I'm trying to create in felt.


I had pleated the nuno prefelt below using my embellisher machine and then tried unsuccessfully to wet felt additional roving to the undersides of the pleats. So I removed the roving and just completed felting it and ended up with a bit of a ripple effect - and alot smaller piece!


So much to learn and I'm glad I will have the workshop with felt artist Ulrieke Benner to help me out, soon.


Adding Texture

Here's a case of 'losing my marbles'. And nuno felting with a bit of silk gauze I had snow dyed earlier this year when we actually got some snow. Both sides are attractive and the wool and silk roving adhered nicely.

For this one I tried adding some velvet devore strips, silk scraps and sari threads to the wool and silk roving, but I ended up covering the goodies too thickly for them to show much - oops!


And dry felting on some embroidered tulle first, followed by wet felting.



The more I experiment, the more I see how sewing and the various types of felting and materials could work together.