Weaving with wool roving

People often complete small weaving projects as children, but never revisit the craft. This page offers weaving lessons for use with both cardboard and wooden looms, plus many DIY project tutorials.

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Steps on twisting and weaving wool roving to look like fluffy rope!

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Our guest artist/author is Zara Tuulikki Rooke. We’ve recently seen the beautiful fleece rugs she’s felted and shown us on the forum with her daughters. But she has taken it a step fu…

Last week in my post on how to have two different warp thread colors, I had woven with wool roving. I have previously talked about weaving wool roving, but I haven't yet talked about adding texture to it when you weave. The tricky part of weaving with wool roving is the fibers can be easily

Learn Painting with Wool techniques and create beautiful needle felted fiber art! Online course with lifetime access, seven full projects to make (including this lovely landscape), and lessons that will enhance your needle felting skills and boost your confidence in art-making. Use these needle felting tutorials to level up your fiber art.

Bulk Wool Sources and Suppliers for hand dyeing, feltmaking and spinning yarn Since I decided to eventually start selling some handcrafted fiber supplies (like dyed rovings, fiber batts, kits, etc.), I've been trolling the internet to find the best sources to buy fiber art supplies in bulk. I've researched many fiber art forums as well as done a lot of Google searches. In the past, I haven't shared a lot of my supply sources, and there's still things that I like to be my little secret, but…

So we've gone over a few different ways to soumak your wool roving and today I wanted to talk about the most fun way to weave with your roving. We're going to talk about tapering while you soumak so that your wool roving goes from large and fluffy bumps to a tighter and smaller bumps.

Kids dye their own chunky wool yarn with Koolaid, then make small weaving on cardboard looms.

Rooted Fibres on Instagram: "Happy new year everybody 👋 I don’t know about you but I feel like I blinked and it was January! I’ve felt myself heading into creative lull territory after taking time off creating over the Christmas break. I knew working on this weave would inspire me and help get those creative juices flowing again! Here it is making its way off the loom, there’s such good texture in this one, I’m going to need to get some more close-ups 🤤 I wove it with the handspun yarns…

In my last blog I looked at different ways I’ve tried to represent sea and water in wet felted pictures. Looking back at this link, I realise I sold the sea picture I used as the blog header this w…

This week’s guest post is by none other than Jacey Boggs Faulker, editor of PLY Magazine. She has spent the last decade falling in love with fiber, writing a book (Spin Art, Interweave, 2012)…

Grasping the concept of felting, the process of meshing fibers together to create felt, isn’t too difficult, and in fact, felting can be a fantastic creative outlet and hobby. When you begin to explore some of the lesser-known techniques, however, things can start to get a little confusing. What’s the difference between wet felting and nuno felting?

Now I don't profess to be an expert on this, but Louise asked if needle felting was hard, so I'm going to show you how I do it. I didn't use an armature on Hyacinth, but I am using one here for this dog. Cut two pieces of pipe cleaner 4" long and one piece 3 1/2" long. Bend them into the shapes shown. It should end up looking like this. See, two leg parts and one head/body/tail part. Now twist the leg parts around the body part. With a few bends in the right places it's already starting to…

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Make a colorful, free-form doodle weaving using a homemade cardboard loom. Simple enough for kids, teens, and adults alike!

I get asked " what do you do with art yarn?" I usually say" it is art in and of it's self ,you do not have to "do " anything with it . But that being said i do use my art yarns often woven in scarves, pillows, and a jacket. I decided to weave my latest adventure of my art yarn into the warp and weft on my Saori ch60 loom. First i wound a warp using my art yarns on my FREE STANDING SAORI WARPING FRAME HERE This is all an experiment! first time art yarns as warp on my Saori loom! i decided to…

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