Nuno Felted Textiles

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Some examples of nuno felted textiles:

flowers leaves and bugs on muslin

silk fabric scraps with hand blended fibres

silk fabric scraps with coloured merino fibres

silk fabric scraps with brown Blue Face Leicester fibres

silk scraps and handblended fibres

silk scraps with moorit shetland fibres

memory cloth - silk, cotton, linen with wool

chiffon with wool and silk fibres

muslin with coloured merino fibres

Many Hands Make Light Work

It is so true.  Many hands do make light work.  In just 4 days the children designed, laid out the wool, and completely felted 10 felt panels - each panel measured at least a metre square.  All through the proces they chatted, told stories, sang songs, and were generally just amazing to be with.

hands

The idea for this panel was to capture the colours and shapes of a walk through the woods at springtime.

Spring

leaves and primroses

bluebells

This piece is an idea of lots of snails - a repeating pattern of snails perhaps?  quite impressionistic.  The shiny fiber is bamboo.

snails

Will be a while before the felt panels are hung as school's out for summer!  

summer felts

more pics of the nuno felt panels that been working on with school children.  The ladybugs panels are being made by the youngest in the school - they wound short lengths of wool around their fingers before carefully placing the spots onto their ladybug.  The best bit was adding water and soap to make lots of bubbles.

The idea of the project is to create a lasting piece of artwork with a special teacher who is retiring this year.  She is getting to help each class to create a felt panel.  The felt panels will ultimately be hung in the woodland den at school.

ladybugs

The leaves panels have been made by the 8 year olds.  Each child made a leaf.  They decided altogether the leaves look like a stormy day in the woods, or that you could imagine walking through the woods with leaves on the ground.

leaves

 A little boy wanted to make a rowan leaf as his middle name is Rowan.

rowan leaf

Next week we will be making a panel of snails, and a bluebell wood...