I retook the photos of my Yak and Bluefaced Leicester pieces last week, but I’m only going to post about the Yak today. If I get chance I’ll post the BFL on my feltbyzed blog later in the week. I used Bamboo staple fibre with the Yak fibre, it is creamy white, soft and shiny just like bamboo top, but not being combed, it has more ‘character’. I added the fibre in different ways, some places more dense than others, and tried to keep some of the bamboo’s character.
The bamboo fibre is really shiny and the crimp catches the light.
This is the part in the middle at the top, I separated and fluffed up the bamboo fibre, but laid it on quite thickly:
This is the area just to the right and a bit further down. The fibres were teased a part a little, so are quite dense here too:
These next two pictures are were I added parts of bamboo fibre which had more curl or were crimped:
This is the patch mid to lower right where the bamboo fibres were fluffed up and less dense than in other areas:
I like the way bamboo fibre can be used so densely it almost appears like a layer of fabric, or sparsely so it isn’t quite so obvious until the light catches it. I thought it really ‘matched’ well with the Yak because they both felt soft and smooth.
