Nuno Felting

I took a fabulous nuno felting class last night. My friend Suzanne Morgan creates amazing fibers and teaches classes. You can see her website here.

Yes, she dyed that silk wrap and added the nuno-felting details. Yummy. Nuno felting is the process of combining wool and silk -- that's my inexperienced general description.

More yummy nuno felted goodies.

We started with a base of felbie -- that's the redish base piece. Then added silk pieces on top.

Next we added wool roving and some dupioni threads. I am thinking "autumn" so I used these fall colors.

After our compositions were complete, we sandwiched them between pieces of tulle, got them super wet and rubbed them with a wadded up plastic bag. (Hi tech tools, here.)

Then we rolled them up in the bamboo mat and rolled until our palms were bruised. (You think I'm exaggerating?) Here is Michelle rolling her piece.

Here is my finished piece. It's so textural! This photo isn't great. I took it with a flash... which never results in the best image. But, isn't it interesting?! I love the way the silk bubbles up over the wool.

April was working next to me. Here is her piece before the felting process.

And here is after. It looks like an underwater landscape -- I love it.

This whole project was completed in less than two hours! Suzanne provided beautiful kits with the felbie prefelt and bits of her beautiful hand dyed silks plus roving. She sells these kits on her website too. I just may have to buy a few more. It would be a really fun project to do with an art group. There are even excellent instructions on her website. The only other thing you would need would be a towel (you've got that right?) and a bamboo placemat. Hmmm. The creative wheels are turning!