The felt experiments I did last week (along with Evie, my 90 year old mom and assistant!) were a big success so far.
I used undyed fibers and laid them down over various cordings and silk gauze that acted as resists and/or texture creators. After felting and drying I cut out some of the buried cording-and lovely channels emerged! I trimmed down the edges a bit to give the shadows more definition. These images are in black and white to focus on the textures.
felt channels 1
felt craters
I love these vents and now see I could curve them in all sorts of ways in the future! They all look so otherworldly in the pictures.
The next step is dyeing. I left some of the cording in tact to see what would happen in the dye bath. Will the dye permeate through? Or make some interesting patterns?
Stay tuned!
Karen Kamenetzky Fiber Art 
June 29, 2013 at 9:00 am |
Fabulous! Can’t wait to see what happens next!
June 29, 2013 at 9:30 am |
Ditto for me, Susan!
December 14, 2013 at 9:17 am |
[…] The felting in this new piece began last summer when I felted with my 90 year old mom and began using resists to create channels . The composition of Worlds Apart was partly defined by those sections of felting I wanted to include. […]
May 7, 2014 at 7:48 pm |
Good info. Lucky me I found your website by chance (stumbleupon).
I’ve book-marked it for later!