October 2017 - Natasha Smart Textiles

October 8, 2017October 10, 2017Felt Lampshades, Feltmaking Events, Feltmaking Tutorials

Felt Landscape Lampshades

Did you know you can ‘paint’ with wool fibres to create beautiful designs and artworks? This week talented Exmouth artist Anna FitzGerald and I helped guide a group of felters to create felt landscape lampshades, first designing painterly pieces of felt and then turning these into lampshades. ‘Painting’ with fibres is not dissimilar to working […]

October 1, 2017Feltmaking Events, Feltmaking Tutorials, Flowers

Irresistible Nuno Felting

Nuno felting is a way of felting wool fleece into fabric to create a new, bonded fabric. Amazingly, during the felting process wool fibres will not only grab each other to create felt, they’ll also grab whatever’s next to them. So if you lay an openweave or natural fabric like cotton muslin or silk onto […]