The Complete Photo Guide to Felting

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Creative Publishing international, 2012 - Business & Economics - 240 pages

This richly illustrated how-to book is a comprehensive reference for various felting techniques, including needle felting, wet felting, and nuno felting. With these easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions and hundreds of full-color photos, you’ll be able to explore these easy projects that provide fun opportunities for you to try the techniques. Galleries of unique felted designs and creations by renowned fabric artists act as beautiful examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby yourself.

 

Contents

Introduction
6
A Brief History of Felting
9
ALL ABOUT WOOL AND OTHER FIBERS
10
PREPARING TO FELT
26
TRADITIONAL WET FELTING
52
NUNO OR LAMINATE FELTING
114
NEEDLE FELTING
132
GALLERY
220
Glossary of Terms
232
Resources
234
Acknowledgments
235
Contributors
236
Index
237
Copyright

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Normal0MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Ruth Lane is a self-taught fiber artist who loves to create one-of-a-kind fiber art pieces and play with a wide variety of materials, including wool, silk, fabrics, yarns, and threads. She is also the author of the book Complete Photo Guide to Felting and has taught and written tutorials about a variety of feltmaking techniques, including basic wet felting, nuno felting, and making 3D felt objects using a resist. A long-time member of the Felting Forum, an online forum of 2,500 feltmakers from around the world, she also blogs about felting and other fiber arts at permutationsinfiber.wordpress.com. Ruth co-owns a fine craft gallery, The Purple Pomegranate, which represents more than 180 American artists whose work includes jewelry, ceramics, metalwork, mixed media, woodworking, glass, fiber, prints, and paintings. She lives in Kalispell, Montana.

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