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I am working with silk and wool.
I’m felting the wool into the silk.
I have to felt this garment a 2nd time.
Because not only the design is important
but also the shape.
I’m only changing some parts now.
I use water and the movement of my hand.
And when I move the bubble wrap back and forth
the air in the bubbles is moving,
and the silk is slipping over the wool,
and by and by the wool is slipping in.
For me starting felting was a side effect.
I was looking for ways to shape clothings.
I wanted a good fitting at waist or hip,
or form a great collar by shaping the surface of the fabric
Shaping the fabric, that’s what I’m interested in.
This is wool. It’s only combed.
These are wool flakes. And of course you can shape them
I can make pellets or fringes.
This is a fringe
shaped with only water and provisorily fixed.
Felting – that is the moving and the warmth of my hand
forcing the single wool hair in a certain direction.
In this case I want them creep through the silk.
I put them on the silk,
they are to creep through the silk to the other side of the silk
there they are to bend over and attach themselves
and build a certain shape – in this case a fringe.
Okay – that looks good now.
Now I can start the next step.
First step: put the wool on the silk and work it with your hand,
look for the pattern you want,
and shape it at the same time - namely wide and slender
The slender the more felting hast to happen – the more it has to shrink.
Felting is actually shrinking
and shrinking only happens in the next step,
under the impact of heat and fierce agitation
like bashing it on something hard.
This forces the fabric to take a definite orientation.
Ready!