Nuno felting tutorial

How to Felt Wool - Nuno Felting Method is Part 3 of my Wet Felting Technique Series. Basic Wool Felting, Cobweb Felting and Lattice Felting

Can tulle be used with the nuno felting technique? The answer is yes, of course! Confirming that and trying it out with our extra fine merino wool is.

I have been wanting to try this for YEARS! As usual, I collect “stuff” before hand, as I just know that I will do this someday. Well, well, someday finally came! I drove to The Tin Thim…

Join Sharon and Hannah as The Tin Thimble talks tips and tricks for nuno felting with cotton cheesecloth and achieving a more casual look.

This blog contains some useful tips and hints how to create nuno felt. Nuno felt is a vast area with many opportunities and results depend on many variables. I will be talking here based on my experience and my designs. Please note that there are many other opportunities in nuno felt and I hope this blog will encourage you to experiment with this technique further. 1. Weight of fabric. It is more challenging to felt heavier silk, such as: various thickness silk ponge (5 and 6), silk habotai

In this project we’re going to experiment with the nuno felt technique to see how tulle fuses with natural fibres. We're going to lay out the first layer.

Nuno felting is a technique developed in 1994 by the textile artists Polly Stirling and Sachiko Kotaka. By manipulating a small amount of wool fiber through a base fabric, they learned they could create a felted fabric with characteristics quite different from traditional felt. Nuno felt is thin, lightweight and drapeable. A similar process to wet wool felting, Nuno felting brings 2 different materials together to create a whole new textured fabric. While I was in Tucson for the Crystallized…