homeland of the ancient craft of felting wool are considered the Slavic lands and, therefore, this fascination with technology - in our blood.Therefore, the product produced the highest quality and beautiful it is the representatives of the Slavic peoples.After tasting stringy something once, you will definitely addicted to these long time.
Abundance needle felting newcomers often gets confused and confronts a difficult choice.How not to make a mistake and buy a suitable needle felting, thanks to which it will be possible to create a unique and beautiful thing with your own hands?This will help you and this article.
If you look inexperienced eye on the needle felting wool, most of them seem absolutely identical, but it is not so.Each of the needles has its purpose, and the use of unsuitable will only lead to waste of time and resources.
Triangular needle felting
These needles are the most popular.They often can be found in sets.Triangular needles have respectively three faces that contain special roughness and tine.
If you pay attention, the needle has a number that corresponds to the size of the instrument.Needle felting are both large and small.They are designed for a variety of products - smooth and fluffy.The higher the instrument, so it is thinner and therefore the holes in the product will be less, and the artifact is finished smooth and firm.
most popular among triangular needles are numbered 36, 38 and 40.
№40
Needle This needle is used to work out the fine details that require increased accuracy and caution.It leaves virtually invisible holes in the product.In most cases, it is used in the manufacture of small craft, or as a final step in processing.If you create the dolls, the needle of the fortieth number is better to take to work through plastic face.Then the doll will look more believable.
felting technique itself involves the use of multiple needles, so the one you really will not do.Only the skillful master can matted wool one needle.If you want to spend as little as possible and save it, buy sets.The novice master felting wool three to five needles will be more than enough.
If your city does not have a specialized store, and you do not know where to buy a needle felting, contact your online shopping.Most often, there can pick and wool felting and special literature with lessons for beginners.
needle №38
It is useful to you as the core of the needle.As is universal and can be used on small areas, and during the initial processing of wool.
This needle felting wool and is useful for connecting pieces into a single composition.When you create a simple enough product will only use it.
needle №36
When you just tear off a piece of wool and it is necessary to form into any shape, feel free to take a needle with this number.It is ideal for quick felting wool and a large piece of good cope with such work.But matted smooth the product only of the needle you do not get.For a rough wool that will suit this needle felting.The hands you'll have to create a small dense workpiece from a large piece of wool in minutes.
needles in the form of stars
Due to the large number of teeth on the tip of the hair falls much faster than on a triangular.But the star-shaped needle will not fit on the smooth sections.When creating a soft, fluffy toys such animals often use such tools as they are well pull necessary to coat the pomp.
Technique dry felting wool
make toys with their own hands - a very exciting and interesting to do, the result of which must gladden diligent masters.Suffice it once at least try matted any figure, and you will certainly love this job.
Anyone who loves to create something with their own hands, to invent and create, this occupation will appeal.After all, the finished toy you can think of and still image, clothes and accessories that are also very exciting.
Dry Felting wool is easier to learn, so it is with this technology are advised to start for beginners.This technique provides an untreated dry felting wool that has not yet workability.Dry felting needles do not differ from the wet needles.Therefore, you can stock up on the aforementioned tools and their work in several techniques.
How to use needles
- The needle should be kept just below the point where it bends.
- distracted during the process of felting is not advised, as there is a risk to get hurt, because the needles are very sharp.To avoid this, you can use a special substrate, which must put the product and play the coat right there.
- Keep the needle only vertically with respect to their work.If you do not follow this rule, you can break it when the workpiece is tight.
- If you think that this product is not yet well matted, but the needle enters the work hard, be sure to replace it with a more subtle.So you can avoid it breaking, and final composition is accurate.
- If you're fooling not only dry, but wet hair, then give preference needles or stainless steel with a special coating, which prevents the development of corrosion.These needles are more expensive than usual, but then you do not have to buy new tools once again.
Creating a simple toy in the technique of dry felting
Take not spun wool of any color you like, needle felting, pastels or acrylic paint to work out the details.It is also possible to take a substrate on which the product is fixed.
Draw on paper what you see the future of the toy.Tear off a piece of hair and take very coarse needle.Start with a quick effort to stick it in a coat and at the same time forms the body toys.When the workpiece has become quite dense and hard to the touch, can keep shape, you can take a needle thinner and handle irregular parts.
create all parts separately.In the place where they are going to merge, it is not necessary to play the wool.If you do this, then in the future you will be hard to connect all the blanks.
When the parts are ready, they can be together.Take the needle and work through the rough blanks together.Finished toy paint the colors or pastel crayon.You can also sew or tie toys to clothes, make beaded jewelry.All that is capable of your imagination, you can apply to establish such articles made of wool dry.
About
wet felting Wet felting takes place in an alkaline medium, ie water and soap.Technology fulling wet wool is used to create flat products.If you want to create complete compositions, you will need to learn both techniques.But it is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.
