{"id":2259,"date":"2025-11-04T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/?page_id=2259"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:33:26","slug":"techniques","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/?page_id=2259","title":{"rendered":"Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In nuno-felting<\/a>, wool and textile are felted together to form a new fabric. Textiles such as silk, cotton, silk gauze, wool, hemp or linen can be used; here discarded silk saris and other recycled clothes of silk or cotton are mainly used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of pictures of the process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a short description of the process, see here<\/a>. There are many explanations of nuno-felting available online. For an account of my methods, see my book Old Clothes in Disguise<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two other books that I can recommend are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inge Bauer: An-Gewand-t felted. A Gallery Book\/Felting Impressions, MaroVerlag, Augsburg (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lizzie Houghton: Felting Fashion, Creative and Inspirational Techniques for feltmakers, Batsford, London (2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henriette Giese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In nuno-felting, wool and textile are felted together to form a new fabric. Textiles such as silk, cotton, silk gauze, wool, hemp or linen can be used; here discarded silk saris and other recycled clothes of silk or cotton are mainly used. A couple of pictures of the process: For a short description of the… L\u00e6s mere Techniques<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castaways.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}