Felting A Fleece Rug

Unlike smooth fibers such as cotton and silk wool is uniquely structured to allow for felting.

Felting a fleece rug.

Felted fleece living cushion. The combination of hot water soap and agitation coming together to produce a whole new fabric. Felting is the process of tangling or interlocking wool fibers to form a permanent mesh structure. Felted fleece sheepskins use sheep wool from shearing not the sheepskin so no animal is harmed during the process.

Easy felted fleece rug advertisement do you love the look of sheepskin rugs. Made in the uk. Here is a simple method for turning a beautiful shorn fleece into a rug or throw without having to kill the animal to. For more information on how i make felted fleece rugs click here.

We make living rugs sometimes known as vegetarian sheepskins at our small farm in the peak district. It is a kind of alchemy. Wool fiber covered with small scales or barbs. Home of the original living rug.

Felted rugs are also called vegetarian sheepskins or no skin sheep fleece rugs. This is a part of my yule goat costume project to see the finished costume or if you want to support my art go to this post. Some of you may remember a post i wrote here in april about shearing sheep. There is something magical about felting.

Handmade on the farm. Our rugs are made by hand at our smallholding here in sw scotland uk. Learn wet felting to make a sheep fleece rug. Shearing sheep in sweden.

Our guest artist author is zara tuulikki rooke. Felting a magical process. Buy a rug we make felted sheepskin rugs sometimes known as vegetarian sheepskins at our small farm in devon. We ve recently seen the beautiful fleece rugs she s felted and shown us on the forum with her daughters.

But she has taken it a step further and has built a loom and woven a rug from fleece.