Wallow oldest textile manufacturing
technology on Earth. Archaeologists date the first appearance of milled
products 8,000 years of age.
Classical technique of felting hands implies the existence
of several factors: wool, water, soap and two hands. In principle, wallow in
the hands of an alkaline environment emerged and evolved independently in all
countries where they were domesticated sheep and goats.
Ancient people started to drag out of found wool of wild
animals. And then they learned spinning, knitting and fabric manufacture.
Particularly strong tradition of felting in Asia, Russia,
Finland and Peru. There is also a beautiful legend that says that the first
milled carpet appeared on Noah's ark. Sheep, which drift on it, were in very close
quarters. Their hair fell to the floor gets wet and beat hooves. And when the
sheep have left the ark, the place was milled carpet.
Felt - the oldest material, invented by ancient man. And
at the same time felt - a very modern material to create fashionable and
topical stuff.
Wallow now become fashionable and is becoming more
popular. The starting material for felting is pure wool, and because Felted
wool garments products are environmentally friendly. Singularity of the same
production guarantee their originality.
Felting is dry and wet.
Wet felting implies the presence of several factors: wool,
water, soap and hand.
But dry, use the special felting needles. Their
peculiarity is that they have on the work surface there are special notches
that help clog wool fibers together, blending wool fibers with a needle into a
homogeneous fabric – felt.
Wet and dry felting
- it is time consuming, but very interesting and fascinating process by which
you can create a clean, beautiful, and most importantly, original works for
themselves and loved ones as a gift
.