You might remember I had some unusual pieces of fabric in the nuno samples I showed a couple of weeks ago. In the small piece, I had a strip from a scarf which pretty much looks like  lengths of fine shiny threads held together loosely. This is what the scarf it came from looks like:

On the bigger nuno sample, I tried a piece of a loosely woven and ruffled scarf, this is what that scarf looks like:

Another unusual scarf I sampled was also loosely woven, it had different sections:

The part I used on the previous nuno piece had lots of loose fibres trapped between the layers which I didn’t know until I cut it:

They looked like soy top, but fell out so didn’t get felted with the sample. I don’t think I showed a close up of that piece, here it is:

This is the full piece of the recent nuno sample I made:

This is a closer look at the left end. The top and third piece are both sections of the pink scarf, cut from the different ends:

This is a close up of the other pink piece:

This is the middle section. The bottom piece is a strip of Sari silk, which I think Galina sent me. I’ve had mixed results with sari silk scraps I’ve had before so thought I’d try it out:

It was difficult getting a photo of the right end of the sample, the colours were so bright. I had to ignore the beige crepey strip at the bottom, it didn’t attach very well anyway:

I managed to squeeze a couple of other strips on at the end, another piece of sari silk and, I think a sample of a piece sent by Lyn (sorry if I’ve got them wrong!) I also put a little piece of a scarf I’ve tried before at the bottom:

Have you tried nuno felting with any unusual bits of fabric?