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Detailed, technique-heavy makes for experienced felters.
Most of a dragon's outline is neck, tail and wing rather than body, so the pose and the wire decide the build. Which pose balances, wire gauges, wool weights for three sizes, wired wings, scales, spines, horns, eyes and colours.
9 min read Advanced
Smooth felt looks like felt. Four methods for making a surface that reads as fur, and when each one is the right answer.
5 min read Advanced
Faces are made by taking wool away, not adding it. The order of operations that gets a head from a ball to a character, for animals and dolls alike.
4 min read Advanced
A portrait is not a better sculpture — it is a different problem. How to read a photograph, which four features carry the likeness, and what to charge.
4 min read Advanced
Two different things go by this name — a felt tote in the Birkin silhouette, and the felt organiser that sits inside a real one. Both come down to how stiff the felt is.
4 min read Advanced
A felted hat is a resist project with one unforgiving constraint — it has to fit a head. How to size the resist, and how to stop when it fits.
4 min read Advanced
A wet felted rug is one enormous flat piece of felt. The making is simple; the thickness, the fulling and the floor it goes on are what decide whether it lasts.
4 min read Advanced
A hat blank is felt already shaped into a rough cone or capeline, waiting to be blocked. Which shape to buy, what the grades mean, and what it costs to start.
4 min read Advanced
