When textile artists talk about Nuno Felt, it is sometimes in reference to using wool or other fibre to decorate a lightweight open fabric such as silk or muslin. Our task is to push the wool fibres together and at the same time, pushing the fibres through the weave of the fabric. You only need a very small amount of wool. This is where wool comes into its own best qualities of being great for all temperatures. In this way nuno felt can be a joy to wear in a very hot climate. The qualities of wool are such that it is cool as well as warm to wear. Even the smallest amount of wool such as this will add to the comfort of a nuno felt item. A nuno scarf decorated like this will be featherweight but amazingly warm at the same time.
This is Part 3 of a series of videos
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:28 What you need
00:51 Setting up the project
01:01 Laying down the black stems
01:59 Cover with net and wet down the project
02:19 Using hands and a roller to press the wool through the silk
02:36 Add detergent when needed and using hand work to keep patting
03:11 Using some sort of ridged tool, rolling pin and bubble wrap
03:28 Testing felting progress
06:57 Rolling the work in multiple directions
07:25 Dropping and shaking to Full the felt
08:50 Rinse the work in water /vinagar mix to stop the felting process
I make mistakes so you don't have to. Previously in Part 2 I tried to create an embellishment on some sari silk. I found it very difficult to get the wool to penetrate the silk. In Part 3 I experiment with different ways of creating a nuno felt sample using black muslin cotton and Merino wool top. The idea was that using an open weave fabric would make it a lot easier to get the wool to go through the fabric. I got lost in my own enthusiasm and 'bull in a china shop' approach. So I reworked the same piece using a slower and more deliberate approach to see if that would work ... and it did.
About 30 years ago Judith Shaw , a Western Australian felt maker, made me a beautiful shawl/wrap . After much use , it is still great to wear. It always amazes me how much warmth can be found in a cotton that has even just a little wool embellishment. My aim in part 3 was to work out how Judith got the wool fibres to penetrate the fabric so effectively....Stay in touch for part 4.
n the 1990’s, Polly Stirling, an Australian fibre artist together with Sachiko Kotaka were exploring ways of bonding wool fibre to open weave cottons and silk. They named this felt Nuno Felt.
Wool fleece or other fibres are bonded to and through an open weave, lightweight fabric such as cotton muslin or silk gauze. "Nuno" means cloth in Japanese so Nuno Felt is an open weave cloth bonded to wool fibre. If you do a search for Polly Stirling , you will discover a delightful video where Polly talks about her journey from weaving to Feltmaking. Then, Polly talks about her joyful explorations into incorporating cloth with wool and other fibres.
Polly Stirling: • Polly Stirling 2016
Sachiko Kotaka: • Sachiko Kotaka's Tacti...
You can also access these via my Nuno Felt playlist.
Nuno Feltmaking is great for both artists who wish to make very even and professional looking work as well as those who want to engage in joyful playing with colour , texture and textiles.
I am no feltmaking expert. I have the good fortune to have a mother Judith Shaw, 90, who has been a passionate and adventurous felt maker and textile artist. I am able to draw on the detailed notes she kept over many years and use some of her magic stash of wool.
Through these videos I am exploring different ways of working with wool and felt just as Judith did for many decades. I simply invite you to come on this journey of discovery with me.
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