Wet Felting
Wet Felting Books
Felting books split into three kinds — technique manuals, project collections and artist monographs. Most people buy the second kind first and wish they had bought the first.
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Buying Guides — page 2
Supplies & Tools
Needle Felting Pen
A pen holds three to seven needles and covers ground several times faster than one. Where that speed is worth having, where it ruins the work, and which tool to buy.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Felt Hat Brands
A handful of firms still block their own felt. Everyone else buys bodies from the same few mills. What the names mean, what to expect at each price, and where to buy in Australia or on Amazon.
4 min read
Supplies & Tools
Felt Machine Embroidery Designs
Felt is the easiest fabric an embroidery machine will ever meet — no fraying, no grain, and it is its own stabiliser. Almost. The two places it goes wrong are density and hooping.
4 min read
Supplies & Tools
Felt Hat Colours
Charcoal reads as neutral, brown reads as warm, and black reads as formal whether you meant it to or not. How felt takes dye, and which shades survive sunlight.
3 min read
Wet Felting
Bamboo Mat for Felting
The mat is not padding. Its ridges grip the wool through the plastic and shear it slightly with every roll, and that shear is what turns a fragile web into fabric.
3 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Types of Felt Hats
Fifteen felt hat names, what distinguishes each one, and which of them turn up as crossword answers — because half the questions about hat names come from a grid.
3 min read
Supplies & Tools
Wool Slippers Australia
Australia grows a fifth of the world's wool and imports most of its slippers. What is actually made locally, why merino is the wrong fibre for a hard-wearing slipper, and how the sizing converts.
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Supplies & Tools
Felt Hats for Men
A fedora, a trilby and a homburg are three different hats, and the difference is measurable in centimetres of brim. What each shape does for a face, and how to size one properly.
3 min read
Supplies & Tools
Wool Slippers with Arch Support
Most slippers advertised as supportive have a soft foam insole, which is the opposite of support. Three constructions genuinely hold an arch, and one of them you can fit yourself.
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Supplies & Tools
Scandinavian Wool Slippers
Nordic slippers are built around coarse, long-staple wool and a hard-wearing sole, not softness. The result is a slipper that survives a decade of concrete-cold floors.
3 min read
Projects
Felt Birkin Bag
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