Nuno felting tutorial

Grasping the concept of felting, the process of meshing fibers together to create felt, isn’t too difficult, and in fact, felting can be a fantastic creative outlet and hobby. When you begin to explore some of the lesser-known techniques, however, things can start to get a little confusing. What’s the difference between wet felting and nuno felting?

As a big Thank You for all the support I’ve had since I started felting and blogging, I’m giving away a copy of my new PDF e-book called Beyond Nuno. It’s all about using differen…

I wanted to point out this great tutorial on Ashland Bay’s website for using silk hankies (the kind you can spin with) and a bit of wool to make nuno felted scarves. Everything you need for t…

A while back Ruth got some free samples of some cheese cloth or cotton gauze from Cheese Cloth Fabric.com. She dyed some and sent me some samples. I also had a more open weave cheese cloth that I …

Two weeks ago my friend Antoinette and I got together in her beautiful backyard to batik some silk fabric which we would later nuno felt. For more information on the batik process click HERE. Yesterday we got together at my house for the nuno felting portion of our textile adventure. I had hand dyed some wool roving and other silks to coordinate with the batiks we did. I started off with a piece of the batiked silk 132" long by 19" wide and after the felting process, the finished scarf was…

I haven’t done a nuno felting tutorial so I thought it might come in handy for those of you who haven’t tried it before and need a little guidance. The most important thing to remember …

Wool nepps a tutorial, well, a curly wool nepp. It’s a start, and just my style, easy and cute I have searched the web far and wide about how to make wool nepps on my own. I’ve seen, wh…

Instructions for Nuno Ruffled Scarf by Nancy Ballesteros These simple instructions will lead you step by step through nuno felting an elegant Ruffled Scarf using Paj silk fabric, Superfine Merino wool and a bit of Silk Throwsters Waste. You have … Continue reading →

Nuno and cobweb felt.

I personally like the feel of silk. So, I decided to learn to make a silk ruffled edge on a scarf. This was an experiment for the ruffle and using a few other techniques with different fabrics an…

Felted books are thick and squishy, with a set of characteristics quite different from paper books. I learned the wet-felting technique in 2...

There's a craft technique I recently learned about I hadn't heard of before, nuno felting. I had to get curious about how this creative process worked!

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www.nadinsmo.com Burberry Baby- Handmade nuno felting from pure merino wool and natural silk-chiffon

Studio 907: More Textile Adventures - Nuno Felting the Batiked Fabric