_Felting Wool
_Felting Wool
Wool is a versatile, sustainable, and affordable textile fiber that has been used for centuries all over the world. Wool comes from sheep, or other animals, that have crimped hair or fur. It has remarkable properties. For example it is elastic, meaning it can stretch and bend without breaking (up to twenty thousand times, versus a mere few thousand like cotton or synthetic fibers – imagine, if you will, the poor soul that had to manually bend a wool fiber to determine that!). It can absorb water up to thirty percent of it’s weight without feeling wet or soggy, keeping it’s excellent insulating properties. Wool can absorb water, it also holds moisture and is fire resistant. Wool can also be dyed, uniformly, without the use of chemicals. It is truly a miraculous product. Learning about felting can be fun!
Felting_
Wool is a versatile, sustainable, and affordable textile fiber that has been used for centuries all over the world. Wool comes from sheep, or other animals, that have crimped hair or fur. It has remarkable properties. For example it is elastic, meaning it can stretch and bend without breaking (up to twenty thousand times, versus a mere few thousand like cotton or synthetic fibers – imagine, if you will, the poor soul that had to manually bend a wool fiber to determine that!). It can absorb water up to thirty percent of it’s weight without feeling wet or soggy, keeping it’s excellent insulating properties. Wool can absorb water, it also holds moisture and is fire resistant. Wool can also be dyed, uniformly, without the use of chemicals. It is truly a miraculous product. Learning about felting can be fun!
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