I love watching traditional felt being made so when I stumbled upon this beaut on youtube I wanted to share it. I thought I’d seen most of the Ray Mears stuff but don’t remember this:
200 sheep fleeces…cor blimey! Can you make all our felts good and strong please Tenge? Not quite so critical for those of us not actually living within our felt but nonetheless…
Now I want to read up on Mongolian history! Although I didn’t finish my anthropology degree I can’t stop being fascinated. Talking of degrees, did I say I’m off to study LD nursing this Autumn. Well I am, woohoo!
Isn’t it interesting how so many textile crafts (knitting, felting…) are/were traditionally made by men when they are now overwhelmingly dominated by women. I don’t believe what they say, equal rights can’t exist when (albeit among many many other issues) we’re still too sexist as a society to really think it normal for men to be doing these things as well.
I think I’ve been living up to the tagline of my blog with this post, I’ll stop rambling about whatever pops into my head!
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the vid 🙂
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April 1, 2010 at 7:38 am
watchthatcheese
What is LD Nursing?
April 1, 2010 at 8:08 am
For the Love of Felt
Learning Disability Nursing 🙂
June 18, 2010 at 12:09 am
Confident Felting
Great video!
One of the new starter questions on wet felting you see around is “how rough can I be with my felt while Im rolling it”. Next time I’m asked, I’ll send them a link to this video!
Thanks
Jason
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June 18, 2010 at 12:15 am
Confident Felting
PS – I agree completely about men…no reason they can’t learn to felt as well!
Jason
Confident Felting :: Beautiful wet felting projects :: Beginners guide to wet felting
June 18, 2010 at 2:43 pm
For the Love of Felt
Hi Jason, Thanks for your comments 🙂
Always nice to hear from people so insipred by felting. I love the green Nuno bag on your site!