In a modern world where technology and mechanized production have replaced almost everything, handmade felting — one of the oldest textile-making techniques — is gradually fading into the ranks of ...
This project is a bit more complicated than the last few crafts, but is completely worth the extra time. Continuing the theme of repurposing and sustainable crafting, today’s craft turns an old wool ...
Needle felting uses a barbed needle to intertwine wool fibers to create a solid fabric. Needle felting uses a barbed needle to intertwine wool fibers to create a solid fabric, whether that be a 2D ...
Watch this mesmerising video showing the process of turning wool into an incredibly lifelike model of an Abyssinian cat. KeXin Fan, from Harbin, China filmed and created this incredibly detailed wool ...
Needle felting is one of those cool crafts that can yield incredible, lifelike masterpieces—or fuzzy, misshapen blobs of wool ...
Seven years ago, Jenne Giles was a San Francisco painter and sculptor who didn’t know felting existed. Now she works almost exclusively in the medium, stretching the possibilities of felt in fashion.
You could be forgiven for assuming Aliman Esenalieva is overheated. The 60-year-old textile artisan is sitting cross-legged on the floor of a felted yurt on a sweltering 90-degree June day just ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. At an international trade exhibition in London, Paula Halverson got her first glimpse of the ...