Zwartble – Felting and Fiber Studio

Fibre Giveaway

January 26, 2016 zedster66 Comments 88 comments

Today it’s my turn for a giveaway, I’m doing fibres too, and very predictably it’s naturals! There are 4 different breeds of natural wool tops totalling aproximately 300g. There’s roughly 100g of Texel and 50g of Devon:

And roughly 100g of Grey Norwegian and 50g of Zwartble tops:

I’m also including some embellishment fibres, aproximately 150g altogether. There’ll be fibres like Ramie, Bamboo fibre, Kapok, Cotton top and Soy staple:

And Ramie, Plastic Fibre, Nylon Fibre and Cotton fibre:

I’ll try to include as many different fibres as possible. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post. Make sure you use a valid email address because I’ll use that to contact you for postage details. I’ll announce the winner on the 3rd of February, so check back then. Good Luck!

An Old Piece and a New Piece

June 16, 2013 zedster66 Comments 12 comments

I only realised yesterday when I started to plan my blog post, that all my photos are still on my old hard drive. I was looking for another felt scrap piece that I recently started on when I came across a piece I made quite a while ago which I never posted about. If any of it looks familiar, it’s because I used it for the banners for the studio site and the forum 🙂
I wanted to make a piece with colours and textures inspired by the natural colours of the landscapes between Manchester and West Yorkshire. I used lots of different coloured natural wools and wool tops: Merino, Bluefaced Leicester, Manx Loaghtan, Zwartble, Black Welsh Mountain, Jacob, Gotland. I also used raw gotland locks and Lincoln locks.
I mostly used mid to dark shades of wool and animal fibre, there’s some sandy coloured Alpaca in here too.

For texture I used some wool nepps.

And also some silk noil, I added a lot of this so it would look like a solid band.

To create a kind of mossy/spongey moorland type grass look, I blended some plastic fibre with some natural shades and green shades of merino.

I was really pleased with the way it turned out, especially the shape, I wanted an organic shape because I thought this suited it better.
I did find the scrap piece that I was working on, I think this will be the outside of a notebook cover.