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Pure inspiration! From color and dyeing to building texture, Shelia shows use of felt, fabric, thread stitching and yarn to create wonderful surface designs.
The Big Book of Needle Felting shows ideas and techniques for everything from making jewelry to embellishing commercial fabric, felt, and knitted items.
Creative Felting provides you step by step instructions and illustrations on how to felt 30 different projects. Wonderful color ideas and use of texture.
Needlefelt: A Guid to Design, Color & Technique by Neysa Russo $14.00 The booklet reviews design options, color choices and basic techniques for transferring design ideas to a felt base and needle felting intricate designs. Whether your bent is to persian or art nouveau, you can apply the principles here to creating wonderful rugs and wall hangings by needle felting into a wet felted base.
Fleece Dog by Nobuko Nagakubo a.k.a SINCO Price: 22.95 This adorable book shows you how to needle felt just about every breed of dog known to the average person. From chihuahuas to afghan hounds, toy poodles and scottish terriers to bernese mountain dogs.
Uniquely Felt by Chris White Covers a range of techniques and an array of projects, a comprehensive look at felting today. Price: $24.95 Price: $24.95
Nuno Nouveau by Liz Clay The first book I've found devoted solely to nuno felt techniques. The author incorporates several surface design elements (cutting, embroidery, sewing) to her nuno felt projects. Price: $19.99 Price: $19.99
Shown on the left, lots of creative techniques for producing felt scarves in a broad range of styles.
Shown on right, this book featureshow-to for everything from pillows and placemats to skirts and scarves and includes working with pre-felts and nuno. Felted Jewelry by Carol Cypher: $21.95 Fun and inspiring jewelry to make with traditional felting methods. Feltmaking by McGavock: $34 Since New Traditions for an Ancient Craft went out of print, this has become my new favorite for inspiration and technique for felting. Bound with wire, the pages stay open nicely and it even introduces some nuno felting technqiues in its projects, which include wearables to rugs, sculptures and wall hangings. Feltmaking Whys and Wherefores: $21.95 Great background on the fibers and fundamentals of traditional feltmaking to simple projects for all. Felted Hats by Chad Hansen: $9.95 Inspiring and fun hat designs to felt. |
Shelia Smith Price: $27.99
Several Authors Price: 24.99
Lizzie Houghton Price: 14.95
Felt
by Robyn
Steel- Srickland Price: 16.95
How to Make Felt by Anne Belgrave Price: $17.95
This readable book teaches all the technqiues you need for traditional Scandinavian wet felting techniques plus has some great inspiration for projects (hats, rugs, wall hangings) and ideas for fun felting with kids and group projects.