felting

More recently, she has begun to explore other areas of knitting, such as felting.

Only the soft inside fur was used for felting.

Needle felting is a popular fibre arts craft that creates felt without the use of water.

This seems unlikely, since grease interferes with the felting of wool, rather than enhancing it.

It received a devastating blow when a fire broke out in the church hall as workmen replaced roof felting.

The other methods are knitting, lace making, felting, and braiding or plaiting.

Refelt, or felting.

Sentinel: This sculpture incorporates two traditional skills used in the valley, dry-stonewalling and felting, in a unique way.

With daily brushing, felting of the fibre can be avoided, increasing the usable portion of fibre.

This year there is a definite change of direction toward fiber arts, including spinning, dyeing, felting, basketry, knitting and crochet.

Although nephrite is less hard than jadeite on this scale, the tight felting of its fibrous crystals makes it exceptionally tough.

Accordingly its need for protection does not change much at any time of the year and some leaves will survive for several years, retaining their felting throughout.

R. yakushimanum is a compact evergreen with pink flowers and the leaves open as silver-green, changing to a deep green with brown felting.

The second function of fulling was to thicken cloth by matting the fibers together to give it strength and increase waterproofing (felting).

In other words, suitable types of felting can yield controllable isotropy or anisotropy in the behaviour of a structure.

Commercial knitting yarns typically use 30-50% angora, in order to produce some halo, warmth, and softness without the side effects of excessive felting.

Angora wool is commonly used in apparel such as sweaters and suitings, knitting yarn, and felting.

Textiles (Weaving, felting, knitting, silk painting, embellishing, silk screening)

Other fiber art techniques are knitting, rug hooking, felting, braiding or plaiting, macrame, lace making, flocking (texture) and more.

The teacher gave him a bit of wool and a needle, introducing Mr. Genao Rodriguez to the craft of needle felting.

Felting of wool occurs upon hammering or other mechanical agitation because the microscopic barbs on the surface of wool fibers hook together, somewhat like Velcro.

Nor could she see much of a future for herself in felting, watercolour or any of the usual congelations of spry creativity filed under age-appropriate midlife hobbies.

Plica neuropathica (also known as "Felted hair") is a curling, looping, intertwisting, and felting or matting of the hair in localized areas of the scalp.

Felting is the hand-knitters' term for fulling, a technique for joining knitted or woven wool fibers (only animal yarn fibers can be felted.

The process uses synthetic-fiber felting to create trompe l'oeil effects, and the mosaic designs had all the editors and buyers craning their necks to get a closer look.