||HomePat has made wonderful lifelike watercolor pictures with felt for years and has taught many classes to do this. During her teaching she has developed a technique that will help people, (like me) who can't draw well, be able to make realistic looking felt pictures.
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workbook is intended to help you learn the technique developed by Pat Spark, called
"Watercolor Felt". Ms. Spark calls her method by this name because she
uses concepts from painting, and applies those concepts to feltmaking. The result
is felts that are visually similar to watercolors, but which are totally made
of dyed fiber. There is no actual painting involved, unless you consider the placement
of each individual colored fiber as "painting" with the fiber. The process
involves the use of both the traditional, wet felting method and needle felting,
also known as the dry felting method. Following Ms. Spark’s instructions
with these two felting methods, you will be able to create your own pictorial
felts. Don’t know how to draw? Don’t worry; Ms. Spark has included methods
for working from photographs to create your images. The workbook is divided into two sections. Section One describes basic felting information. Section Two is a series of samplers that will take you step by step through the various needle felting and wet felting methods you will need for doing the process. The samplers are sequential, with each one building upon the techniques of the last so that you will methodically gain the expertise needed to make the pictorial felts. |
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pictures and illustrations are in black and white with 4 pages of colored pictures
showing the samplers you will make with a photograph of the flower or leaves at
the top of the page and the finished felt piece at the bottom of the page. 60
pages of text, black/white drawings and photos, including 4 pages of color photos.
Spiral bound so that it lies flat for quick reference when you're working, 8 1/2
inches by 11 inches. $27.00 See more Wet Felting books. |  |
See the samples
of dyed rovings that are handspun, hand knit and needle felted.
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more Wet Felt Instructions page 1,|| Page
2 || Page 3 || Wet Felting
Supplies ||Roving, Top and Batts ||