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Felt Bag
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Dry Felting:
The dry technique requires few but essential tools, allowing you to punch wool designs into felt, but also into denim, cotton or fleece. You can also punch wool into polystyrene shapes. To do this, you need:
- a foam punching pad
- special barded felting needles
- natural wool fibres
- the item that you want to decorate.
Place the item to decorate on the foam pad and using the felting needles, repeatedly punch the wool fibres into the fabric. The foam pad is essential as it protects your needles from breaking on a hard surface. The small wool fibres will be forced into the textile.
It is surprisingly easy to make your own design, and requires little artistic skill. You can also use a stencil or cookie cutter as a guide when punching the wool.
You can combine wet felting with dry felting, by making the basic shape in wet felting, then decorating it by punching accent into your felt shape.
You can also make felt designs using the ready made felt accents, such as flowers, bees etc. simply glued on to a base, or punching them in using wool fibres, or combining punched designs with applied ready made accents.
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