Recently the filtsevaniye - fulling from wool, became very popular hobby both for children, and for adults. With the help the technician of wet or dry fulling it is possible to make a toy of any form, color and the size. Everything depends only on your imagination.
Instruction
1. It is possible to buy wool for felting in specialized art shop. It is packed into small bags on 100 - 200 grams. Such wool is completely ready to work with it and does not demand any additional preparation. Its advantages are that it has a huge variety of flowers and also the pleasant invoice which allows to felt a quality toy. However, such wool not costs little.
2. If you want to save, buy wool in the market. But to begin to drag from it, you will need to carry out additional processing. Wash and well dry wool. If it is not combed out, then when washing short and rigid hairs can drop out of it. Not to litter some plums, do not erase wool in the washing machine at all. When washing on hands wrap wool in a gauze. It is possible to paint material, having dipped it into in advance divorced food paint.
3. For a filtsevaniye in technology of wet fulling, except wool, you will need soap (it is desirable liquid), hot water, a basis for a framework (cardboard or plastic will approach), beads, paints, pastel. Getting to work, draw preparation of your future toy on cardboard. Then cut out it, pack into a thin plastic bag and carefully roll up an adhesive tape that cardboard did not spoil wool when soaking.
4. Divide wool into thin long fibers and well wind a framework diversely. Carefully you promnit the turned-out product in hands, confusing fibers. Wet future toy in hot soap solution. Begin accurately, but not strongly to rumple hands each detail. When you feel that the toy becomes firmer, wash out it under flowing water, and then again dip it into soap solution. Concentration of soap has to be higher. Begin to rumple stronger. Surely iron hands of a junction of details that the toy was stronger.
5. After you felted a toy, make a small cut on a trunk and take a framework. Wrap a product in a towel, let's it dry out. Fill a toy sintepon and sew up a section. Embroider eyes and a nose, designate a flush by pastel or acrylic.
6. If you want to felt a toy dry, needles will be necessary for you for fulling (No. 70-90 - for a start, and smaller No. 40-30, for final processing). Also take a thick and big sponge. Divide wool into several fibers - for a trunk, the head, pads, ears. From each piece roll a ball in hands. Arrange a ball on a sponge and begin to stick evenly it with a needle for fulling.
7. That pads and ears turned out identical, drag them at the same time, constantly comparing. When details are ready, take a thin needle and their privalyayta to each other, closing places of joints thin strips of wool. Sew a nose and eyes, they can be made of plasticity or beads.