handmade art, craft & design
The process of mokume shibori is incredibly labor & time intensive, but boy does it work beautifully! The goal is to create the effect of a tree’s bark, both in dye resist and in thermal forming of the handmade wool felt. First up is the stitching of the fabric… Next up, the tightening of the [...]
In my never-ending pursuit of re-making nature out of fiber, here are a pair of needle felted mushrooms. The inner base is made of recycled sweater parts, and then wool is needle felted all around. Each mushroom was needle felted first, then attached to the base.
Finally done with all the fine running stitches, 36 rows total. though it may not look it, this piece of green handmade wool felt used to be about ten inches wide, now pulled taut to around four inches or so. The plan is to overdye this with a blending of silver blue, and a dash [...]
