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Post by Frances on Apr 2, 2014 15:05:32 GMT
Has anyone used this type of fabric for wet felting. 52'' Wide Island Breeze Gauze Yellow Fabric By The Yard Content: 100% cotton Width: 52'' Weight: very light weight Unit of Sale: Yard
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Apr 2, 2014 16:07:32 GMT
I actually have some of that cotton gauze with the vertical texture, and it is white and very lightweight. However, it did not wet-felt very well, and I am unsure why that happened. I did wash it first to remove any chemicals and/or sizing. Since I already had successfully nuno-feltied with silk, I was surprised the airy cotton did not felt so easily. Suggest you try a sample first, and please let me know how you fared. Of course, we could be talking apples and oranges since we don't know that we have the same fabric.
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Post by Shepherdess on Apr 2, 2014 16:31:40 GMT
I have used this before with success. Although it is a light and airy fabric, each thread is much thicker then the silk. It takes more encouraging to get it to migrate up through the weave.
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Post by MTRuth on Apr 2, 2014 16:35:58 GMT
I have also used this type of fabric for nuno felting with success. If you want to test a fabric, hold it up and blow through the fabric. If the air penetrates easily through the fabric, it will nuno felt, if it doesn't, it will be much more difficult to felt.
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Post by Frances on Apr 2, 2014 16:55:12 GMT
Thanks for the responses - I was looking on Amazon.com for something lightweight that was already dyed so I have not physically touched this. I will go to Joanne's Fabrics or Hobby Lobby and buy a quarter of a yard and play with it.
frances
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Apr 3, 2014 14:41:20 GMT
Ann and Ruth, I did not think that cotton gauze would be more difficult to felt with than silk, but now I know! The gauze I used did pass the blow test, but since the threads are thicker thank silk (as Ann pointed out) --that would explain its stubbornness to felt (and perhaps my own impatience to see it felted).
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Post by Shepherdess on Apr 3, 2014 16:53:26 GMT
Luvswool sometimes it is hard to go slow. We want to get to the end and see the finished piece.
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Post by koffipot on Apr 21, 2014 8:42:44 GMT
I use cotton scrim, which looks very similar. I find the wool fibres migrate well and very quickly. I always wash it first, sometimes I dye it too and have not had a problem. The photo below shows hand dyed scrim on a resist for a gilet. flic.kr/p/e4LKtuThis is the scrim side:- flic.kr/p/nf84Fyand the wool side:- flic.kr/p/nf82D6
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Post by halay on Apr 21, 2014 9:51:25 GMT
Judith, I checked your Flick photos and found this one. Lovely combination of materials as well as colours. I wonder what came out of this material? do you have a photo?
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Post by koffipot on Apr 30, 2014 14:40:11 GMT
Halay, I'm not sure which photo you were looking at. If it was yellows and greens it became a gilet - there is a photo of it on flickr taken before I completely fulled it. flic.kr/p/e4Mrg1flic.kr/p/e4MqRU
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Post by halay on Apr 30, 2014 16:17:19 GMT
Thanks Judith. Your gilet looks really good - a pity only that the photo doesn't show the brightness of the colours as in the photo with the material before you started work.
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Post by koffipot on Apr 30, 2014 16:59:02 GMT
My photographic skills are very limited!
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Post by Frances on May 1, 2014 12:43:20 GMT
I use cotton scrim, which looks very similar. I find the wool fibres migrate well and very quickly. I always wash it first, sometimes I dye it too and have not had a problem. The photo below shows hand dyed scrim on a resist for a gilet. flic.kr/p/e4LKtuThis is the scrim side:- flic.kr/p/nf84Fyand the wool side:- flic.kr/p/nf82D6Thank you - I will purchase some the next time I see it and give it a try - your completed project is lovely
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Post by halay on May 18, 2014 14:04:39 GMT
I was playing with cotton gauze too. I've recently ordered 10 metres and then dyed it in different colours. This time I used the red one to make slippers. Perhaps the picture does not show it well, but the lining is actually gauze (I think this is a good alternative if you don't have wool in contrasting colour). On the top I wanted to make a flower, all felted in: I played with two resists: First I took a piece of gauze and gathered it in the middle to get a kind of a bud, put the first resist with a hole in the middle (i.e. on the fourth layer of the basic wool), and pulled out the bud. Then I placed the other circular shape resist on top of the gauze and layed some red wool on it. Then I finished the slippers with two more layers of the basic wool. When the slippers were finished and fitted on the last, I cut the last two layers carefully using a scalpel and exposed the bud. I quite like the outcome and have plans to use gauze in other projects too. I did have a small problem with using resits. When the piece was finished I found it difficult to locate where the flowers was exactly. Are there any suggestions on how to spot and make an incision in the right place?
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Post by koffipot on May 18, 2014 14:10:42 GMT
The slippers are beautiful - I love the flowers and the gauze lining is a good idea. As for locating the resist!! It can be tricky, I try to place a contrasting marker over the resist on the fibre covering the resist. It could be a small piece of contrasting fibre or just a thread. it depends whether or not the area will be seen once the resist is removed.
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