Felting Books & DVD's

NEW! The Ashford Book of Needle Felting

Explore the unlimited potential of needle felting with the Ashford Book of Needle Felting. Create your own adorable figures, beautiful flowers and scenes, striking jewelry and embellishments all in flat or sculpted felt. With just a little wool, a felting needle and this book you can create unique, beautiful felted works of art. If you haven’t tried needle felting, here is a book to inspire you. The Ashford Book of Needle Felting explains and illustrates all the techniques, materials and equipment needed. For each project there are step-by-step instructions and full color photographs of each process. The Ashford Book of Needle Felting offers projects for beginners and skilled felters and each project builds on the knowledge gained. The book provides all the pattern templates for the projects. 112 pages, full color.

NEW! Felt Inlays

NEW! Creative Felting

NEW! The Art of Felt

The Art of Felt is subtitled Inspirational Designs, Textures and Surfaces. The Art of Felt is a creative overview of felt and felt making that, with the aid of more than 300 photographs, encourages readers to be inspired by the sky. The book includes basic techniques that can be used to create felted fabrics from scratch, such as needle-felting and tufting, along with imaginative ways with readymade felt. It is sure to appeal to all craftspeople, textile designers and students, and will be an invaluable source of inspiration for anyone involved in textile design.
An inspiring, all-color survey of designs and patterns for this popular craft. Often thought of as a practical material, felt can be surprisingly versatile and even poetic. With handmade felted fabrics, subtle variations in color, texture, and volume can be achieved: threads and fibers merge almost magically to form new motifs that can then be enlivened by embroidered or crocheted details. Franoise Tellier-Loumagne takes an original approach to the world of feltmaking, finding design inspiration in calm morning skies, spectacular sunsets, and brilliant fireworks displays. The book includes basic techniques that can be used to create felted fabrics from scratch, such as needle-felting and tufting, along with imaginative ideas for ready-made felt. With a little artistic guidance, clouds across the moon can be turned into an eye-catching necklace, or a stormy sky may inspire a striking scarf or cushion cover. Illustrated with hundreds of images, The Art of Felt will be a treasure trove for anyone interested in original textile design.

How We Felt, Designs and Techniques

Felt artist Carol Huber Cypher takes readers behind the scenes in search of the techniques and inspirations that define the best contemporary felt makers. Beginning with an iconic project, the technique of felting around a ball that artist Beth Beede made famous and taught throughout the world, How We Felt continues with more than 20 artists and highlights diverse forms, including hats, capes, a dress, bags, slippers, jewelry, rugs, pillows, a curtain, an ottoman, and other decorative pieces, plus vessels, hanging installations, a felted chess set, and other art forms. How We Felt offers a gallery showcases other artists and provides further ideas to spark the fiber artist’s imagination. Readers are encouraged to use the examples and instructions to inform their own creative endeavors. In addition to practical information on creating the pieces shown, each project is accompanied by biographical information and insights into the artist’s own inspiration.

Felt Frenzy, 26 Projects for All Forms of Felting

This is not your ordinary felting book! Felt Frenzy explores all the major techniques of felt making, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needlefelting, and “recycled felting”—turning salvaged wool sweaters into useful felt pieces—plus ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results. Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, Felt Frenzy is packed with 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations so readers can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice. You’ll find instructions for the ever-popular felted bag, but it doesn’t stop there—learn to make felted flowers, hats, jackets, scarves, wool sneakers, even a nuno felted skirt. As an added bonus, you’ll find “design ideas” scattered throughout the book to give your projects an extra creative boost; these suggestions help integrate felt into other fiber arts, from embroidery to shibori.

NEW! Not your Mama's Felting, Amy Swanson
The Cool and Creative Way to Get it Together. The art of felting, the process of working wool fibers together to form felt, is the ultimate in craft creativity because no two items turn out exactly alike. The first book to cover knitted or crocheted felting, needle felting, and wet felting, Not Your Mama's Felting will have you creating fashions, accessories, and gifts that will have your non-felting friends asking, "How did you do that?"

Simply Felt, 20 easy and elegant designs in wool, Margaret Docherty, Jayne Emerson

Simply Felt starts with showing you how you can reuse an old thrift shop sweater or a bag of raw wool you can create handsome Created durable fabrics for striking wearable or home decor. All it takes is soap, water and a bit of scrubbing and rubbing. let Simply Felt show you how to make felt from old knitted fabrics, make felt from raw wool and other fibers, how to felt by hand  or washing machine, how to created flat fabrics or sculptural shapes. Find out how to enhance your felt by inlaying fibers for color and texture effects, easy step-by step instructions. 128 pages.

The Art of Feltmaking, Anne Einset Vickrey

The Art of Feltmaking offers basic techniques for making Jewelry, Miniatures, Dolls, Buttons, Wearables, Puppets, Masks and Fine Art Pieces. The Art of Feltmaking demonstrates how to use the natural properties of wool to make delightful, one-of-a-kind felted items. The techniques are so simple that even kids can join the fun. To get started all you need are wool, hot, soapy water and your hands. 144 pages.

Felting by Hand, Anne Einset Vickrey

Learn how to make felt by hand,  and how to choose and prepare domestic wool specifically suited for felting. Let Anne show you how to create slippers, hats, bags, mittens and vests. Find out how to dye wool to suit your needs and decorate your felt and incorporate yarn. Chapter on felt projects for kids as well. Full size fold-out patterns for most projects. 93 pages

 Feltmaking Projects for Children, Anne Einset Vickrey

Feltmaking Projects for Children was written specifically for children and their parents or teachers this book offers exciting opportunities to encourage children to develop their creative expression thru feltmaking. Designed for teachers for grades preschool to fifth, this book can also be used at home. Six projects allow children to make one-of-a-kind felt items: belt beads, felt rope, felt figures, felt vessels, felt balls as well as a group project. Happy Felting

Feltmaking by Hand, Anne Einset Vickrey

Subtitled The Basic Process this video is perfect for all who would like to learn how to felt with soap and water. Feltmaking is a simple technique requiring very little equipment, which produces warm woolen wearables like hats, slippers and mittens that are fun to wear, and they make great gifts. You will learn how to choose the best wool, how to prepare fleece for felting, & how to make your own patterns. You will be given complete instructions for making a felt hat & ideas for lots of other projects. A great craft for all ages. 51 minutes. "This is an excellent video...well organized... clear & concise" HANDWOVEN MAGAZINE

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Feltmaking: Garments and Surface Design, Anne Einset Vickrey

If you already have a basic understanding of felt-making and want to learn more advanced techniques, this is the DVD for you. You will learn surface design methods that can be done before or after felting, with a variety of inlay techniques. Anne will also take the mystery out of making a large seamless felted garment, such as a coat or jacket. This process is explained step-by-step, from making a pattern, to layering batts and felting the wool, to finishing. 94 minutes.