Artfelt® felting paper, kits, and merino pencil roving
It's not needle felting. It's not wet felting. It's not fulling. It's Artfelt® , and it is revolutionizing the way we felt. The Artfelting technique utilizes Artfelt® paper, a patented new paper specifically developed to ease and speed up the felting process. Artfelt® is simple to learn, quick to do and requires no knitting or previous felting experience. Artfelting can create felted material that is wafer thin as well as thick enough for a handbag all while allowing precision detail of design. The only thing that limits creativity with artfelt® is your imagination; any felted piece your imagination can conceive, Artfelt® can achieve!
Artfelt® felting paper
The craft of Artfelt® would not be possible without this revolutionary felting paper, made from a starch base.
Durable enough to withstand repeated tacking to attach the roving, yet it dissolves in boiling water. Comes in two sizes:
This is a good video showing the Artfelt felting process. Below are kits like the ones shown being made on the video!
For more Artfelt projects, you'll need: Artfelt paper (above), a skein of pencil roving and standard roving (at bottom of page)
Artfelt® kits
Learn how to use the Artfelt felting paper by making a simple project with one of these kits.
These kits makes use of both standard and pencil roving in 100% Merino wool. Each style comes in two colorways and is the perfect fit for your small electronic devices, such as phones and cameras.
Artfelt projects are a combination of a thin layer of roving spread out sideways to make a background, with colorful pencil roving (pencil roving is very thin roving), arranged on top to form patterns and designs. Click link to buy the background roving. One ounce is about a yard and a half long, and is plenty for several smaller projects. Cut the length you need, and then spread it out sideways on the felting paper. Pencil roving is available below.
Artfelt® Pencil Roving
Two solid colors, and beautiful color ways make it simple to make felted purses, shawls, scarves....
This pure, Merino pencil roving, felts magnificently to create very soft and smooth fabrics. The color variations in the multi-colored pencil roving is never duplicated, thus you will always have an original piece. 50 gram skein with approximately 40 yards.