Post by possummerinofelt on Sept 14, 2023 12:03:17 GMT
Hello,
Thank you for accepting my application to join!
My name is Elisabeth Cave and I'm from New Zealand, near Hokitika on the West Coast of the South island.
My friend Heather Gilbert lives on the east coast near Kaikoura, she runs coloured saxon merino sheep- the finest of fine merino wool.
I have a Feltloom machine, inside a 40ft container which is being custom-kitted out by my friend Tony, for production and sales. I buy possum fibre direct from trappers, and Heather and I have got a large quantity of her wool commercially processed and made into possum merino batting, for our joint project called The Possum-Merino Felt Project.
It’s a project to test our thinking that there is undiscovered potential in possum-merino fibre to be used - not as a yarn - but as a felt.
When possum and merino fibres are blended at 25% to 75%, and processed into a felt, by hand or machine, the result is super soft, super warm, not itchy, very lightweight and healthy.
We think it could have extra special potential in felting as a layer which sits next to the skin.
Our mission is to run this as a pilot project, to test interest in:
• unprocessed possum fibre
• possum-merino batting,
• possum -merino pre-felt and
• possum-merino felt
among fibre artists and fibre mills, not only in New Zealand, but we hope also for other parts of the world.
Our aim is not so much to make end products but to bring raw materials and kits (with tools and instructions) to the marketplace so that others may create end products, as a hobby or as home-based businesses.
Our project also has scriptural, environmental, social and health purposes, which I will write about on our future website.
We're still in early stages, and so our first product is unprocessed A-Grade possum fibre, which I will upload to the sales section.
Thank you,
Elisabeth
Thank you for accepting my application to join!
My name is Elisabeth Cave and I'm from New Zealand, near Hokitika on the West Coast of the South island.
My friend Heather Gilbert lives on the east coast near Kaikoura, she runs coloured saxon merino sheep- the finest of fine merino wool.
I have a Feltloom machine, inside a 40ft container which is being custom-kitted out by my friend Tony, for production and sales. I buy possum fibre direct from trappers, and Heather and I have got a large quantity of her wool commercially processed and made into possum merino batting, for our joint project called The Possum-Merino Felt Project.
It’s a project to test our thinking that there is undiscovered potential in possum-merino fibre to be used - not as a yarn - but as a felt.
When possum and merino fibres are blended at 25% to 75%, and processed into a felt, by hand or machine, the result is super soft, super warm, not itchy, very lightweight and healthy.
We think it could have extra special potential in felting as a layer which sits next to the skin.
Our mission is to run this as a pilot project, to test interest in:
• unprocessed possum fibre
• possum-merino batting,
• possum -merino pre-felt and
• possum-merino felt
among fibre artists and fibre mills, not only in New Zealand, but we hope also for other parts of the world.
Our aim is not so much to make end products but to bring raw materials and kits (with tools and instructions) to the marketplace so that others may create end products, as a hobby or as home-based businesses.
Our project also has scriptural, environmental, social and health purposes, which I will write about on our future website.
We're still in early stages, and so our first product is unprocessed A-Grade possum fibre, which I will upload to the sales section.
Thank you,
Elisabeth
