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<\/p>\nI have been asked by a few people about how I made my shibori felting pieces, well I have only made two, and I don’t have photos of the process, but here goes!<\/p>\n
1. Made a large piece of felt, I have now done it twice, and found that the english rougher rovings came up better as shibori felt in the end, but required more work to make the actual felt.<\/p>\n
2. Let the felt dry, find lots of marbles, and elastic bands!<\/p>\n
3. This bit takes time, and makes you fingers hurt! Add the marbles to the felt by simply squeezing into the felt and then you the elastic bands to bind in. I used different sized marbles as well it add a bit more interest, but in the end I think they had to be a lot bigger or you really didn’t notice the difference.<\/p>\n
4. Once the felt is filled up with marbles, take forever, and it blooming heavy, find a pillowcase, or something you can put the felt inside, mainly to stop it either attached itself to the washing machine, other items, or breaking apart, then put in the machine with maybe a few other items, I found jeans to work well, or towels would probably be good.<\/p>\n
5. Put the washing onto a wash cycle that isn’t too long, I have one which is 30 minutes which is fine, it also doesn’t matter if it is a short or low speed spin, this is not important, set the temp to between 30 and 40, this should be enough.<\/p>\n
6. Sit back and watch! or should that be wash!!!<\/p>\n
7. Retrieve felt, and squeeze out any excess water, but leave in marbles.<\/p>\n
8. Put in airing cupboard to dry if you have one, or somewhere warm but not direct heat<\/p>\n
9. Once it is dry, if you can wait that long, remove the elastic bands and marbles, much easier to cut off the bands carefully, you can’t really reuse them.<\/p>\n
10. Once they are all out, woohoo, you have your piece of Shibori felt!<\/p>\n
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that is what the right side looks like, and the wrong, if that is the right way to put it, looks like this,<\/p>\n
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I still have not done anything with this, and I know I really ought to, but another one of those things which just sits there looking at me, pleading to be seen out and about!<\/p>\n
I hope this helps anyone out there who is interested : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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