Books for Felters

How We Felt

Designs and Techniques from Contemporary Felt Artists

Carol Huber Cypher

144 pages, Paper

$24.95

Felt artist Carol Huber Cypher takes readers behind the scenes in search of the techniques and inspirations that define the best contemporary feltmakers. In this beautifully photographed book, images of signature works by admired fiber artists are complemented by in-depth information on creating their unique effects.

Fabulous Felted Scarves

20 Wearable Works of Art

Chad Alice Hagen & Jorie Johnson

144 pages, Hardcover with Jacket

$24.95

Felting is hotter than ever, and scarves are fabulous first projects for crafters to try. The simple process yields infinitely varied results, with rich colors, forms, and visual appeal. Created by two internationally-known designers, these 20 spectacular boas, wraps, shawls, and stoles are beautiful, wearable art. Ranging from understated elegance to simply outrageous, they come with easy-to-follow instructions, helpful how-to photos, and templates, when needed. An introduction covers all the basics, and the projects build a repertoire of skills as readers progress through the book. The standouts include a scarf with lacy designs snipped onto the felt surface; a wrap inspired by the delicate hues in Monet’s water lily paintings; and a pretty dip-dye novelty yarn party scarf.

Felt Frenzy

26 Projects for All Forms of Felting

Heather Brack and Shannon Okey

128 pages, Paper

$21.95

This is not your ordinary felting book! Felt Frenzy explores all the major techniques of felt making, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needlefelting, and “recycled felting”—turning salvaged wool sweaters into useful felt pieces—plus ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results.  Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, Felt Frenzy is packed with 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations so readers can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice.

Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads

25 Artful Designs

Carol Huber Cypher

128 pages, Paper

$21.95

Felt-bead jewelry is fashionable! It’s showing up on runways, specialty stores, and galleries around the globe. Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads offers a contemporary and artistic approach to this popular craft—and then takes it a step beyond through beaded embellishment.  No other hand felting book is as comprehensive, as Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads includes both needle-felting and wet-feltmaking techniques covering flat, flat with a resist, 3-dimensional, use of armatures and mediums, color, inclusions, shape, and texture.  These techniques are taught step-by-step in a friendly and accessible manner through the creation of beautiful objects of personal adornment. You’ll learn how to make the felted equivalent of lampworked beads, turquoise focal beads, mokume gane look-alikes, and so much more.

Needle Felting

Art Techniques and Projects

Anne Einset Vickrey

60 pages, Paper

$17.95

This book provides an introduction to needle felting, an exciting new method of creating fiber art.  All you need is some wool fiber, a foam work surface, and a felting needle to create flat or three-dimensional works of art. The book is designed to guide the beginner through simple projects, but it also has useful information for the experienced needle felter. The five specific projects increase with difficulty as you work through the book.

Felt to Stitch

Creative felting for textile artists

Sheila Smith

128 pages, Cloth

$24.95

In 'Felt to Stitch', acclaimed feltmaker Sheila Smith explores the possibilities of making and using handmade felt for stitch. Felt is an incredibly versatile medium that is easy to make and manipulate and provides the ideal base for surface embellishment. Handmade felt allows you a degree of control and creativity that ready-made fabrics cannot replicate. This book shows you how to make your own felt, select and dye your own colours, build unusual textures with felt fibres and further embellishment, and manipulate the felt to produce three-dimensional pieces.

Nuno Nouveau

Fashionable felt for accessories and home decor

Liz Clay

128 pages, Paper

$19.99

Nuno felting is a relatively new technique to traditional felting, resulting in lightweight garments and accessories that have drape and flexibility. The author gives clear instructions about how the nuno process works and demonstrates how it can be used on various fabrics and fibers to create very different results. Each technique is fully illustrated with detailed photographs and clear step-by-step instructions.

Felting Fashion

Creative and inspiriational techniques for feltmakers

Lizzie Houghton

128 pages, Hardcover

$27.95

Fashion artists will go wild about this inspiration-packed book, which offers several ways to make felt and a wide range of patterns for stylish felt garments and accessories. The fashions include everything from hats to lavish full-length coats, and the instructions cover techniques for creating Nuno felt (a lightweight modern type that drapes) as well as traditional felts—plus methods for dyeing wool, ruching, and making cords, spikes, balls, and other embellishments.

Felt Easy and Fun

With wool, a felting needle and your imagination, needlefelting little animals is fun and easy

Birgitte Krag Hansen

Hardcover

$60.00

All the animals in the book are based on the same basic shapes. The individual parts-body and head, legs and arms, ear and tails-are needled separately and assembles at the end. This method makes the animals easy to make, and there are many ways to vary them. The complete, step-by-step pictures and explanations make the book easy to use for everyone who likes to needlefelt, including children.

 

Introduction to Feltmaking

Techniques and Design - Book One

 Sheila Smith

Softcover

$19.95

BACK IN PRINT! This firt book, in a series of three, works through the process of feltmaking in an organized manner. The author uses techniques from the long history of feltmaking. She likes to give depth to her felt with add on like yarn scraps, fabric pieces, etc. She also goes over some dyeing techniques for the fibers to be felted.

 

Felt Without Seams

Making Hollow Forms - Book Two

Sheila Smith

Softcover

$19.95

BACK IN PRINT! This second of the series introduces three-dimensional feltmaking for hats, slippers, bags, and more. This book will guide you through making felt hats that actually fit a human being. Good stuff in here.

 

Beyond the Basics

Advanced Feltmaking Techniques - Book Three

Sheila Smith

Softcover

$19.95

BACK IN PRINT! Book Three of this series is where all the material comes together into some really innovative ideas for taking feltmaking into the realm of art and new textile creation. The look at combining large pieces of fabric into the felt to create organized rucheing or puckers and Procion dyed strands of silk fiber for highlights brings this series and your workshop to a fine conclusion.

 

Beginner's Guide to Needle Felting

Create wonderful pictures and 3-D objects using wool and simple needle felting techniques

Susanna Wallis

64 pages, Paperback

$17.95

Learn how to make charming cards, pictures, jewellery, a bird and even a figure from wool. Simple techniques, clearly explained . Step by step photographs . Six inspirational projects.

 

Little Felted Animals

Create 16 irresistible creatures with simple needle-felting techniques

Marie-Noelle Horvath

64 pages, Paperback

$12.95

The author shows how to make the cutest little miniature animals, using just a few simple tools and some wool roving. Birds, bears, cats, dogs, mice, a fox, a sheep, a seal, and a bunny—sixteen little bundles of fluff in all. Picture all those little eyes looking up at you as if to say, “Thank you for making me!” Then give these critters as gifts, use them as decorations, or arrange them on tabletops. Beautifully photographed in their natural habitats, these sweet dumplings will melt the heart of every crafter.