Sunday, July 17, 2016

Woven Pre-Felt Experiment with Silk Gauze

Alternating strips of brightly colored pre-felt...


                                                ...and strips of painter's plastic...

                                                      ...(cut to the same width)...



                                                     ...to form a woven grid.



                                                     Wetting out the project...



                                       ...and covering it with a layer of silk gauze.



                                                   Mid-way through felting...

                        ...the colored fibers are beginning to migrate through the silk...



                                   ...and the plastic strips have rolled up into cords.



                                                           Fulling the project.



                                      Overall, I consider this a failed experiment...



                   ...as the intentional gaps left from the insertion of the plastic strips...



                                        ...were ultimately not all that interesting. :(



Next time: something that actually worked! :)

2 comments:

Rachel said...

Experiments don't have to be entirely successful if you learn something interesting from them...!

Heather Woollove said...

Rachel...what not to do?!? Grin.