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aged as a medium i love to figure out new techniques in the process of making felt and then write articles about them so i can explain them to other people i am driven to help people understand this incredible medium and to keep exploring it myself for the last 5 years i have been a member of gallery calapooia a cooperative gallery in downtown albany oregon this has been a wonderful challenge to push me to design accessories in both feltmaking and dyeing so that i can have new products for the gallery view my complete profile pat s sites spark fiber arts pat s gallery archive of north american felter s network feltmaker s links feltmakers list faq link to felt artist s web sites subscribe to spark fiber arts posts atom posts all comments atom all comments blog archive 2020 1 december 1 felt learning during the pandemic translating fo 2019 5 march 1 february 4 2017 2 august 2 2015 2 january 2 2014 6 october 1 september 1 june 1 march 2 february 1 2013 7 october 1 august 1 july 2 june 1 april 2 2010 5 may 2 march 2 january 1 2009 3 october 1 september 1 january 1 2008 4 july 2 may 2 popular posts playing with felt pockets lately i seem to have been running into felting situations that involve using resists to make felt pockets i have done this in the p thoughts on making a felt vest how i approach making a felt vest pat spark 2015 there are many different ways to plan a felt garment i am a plus s textured felts cracked mud the family went on vacation this last week i carried along my felting supplies and took advantage of the large dining room table and conve overview of arashi shibori silk scarf by pat spark with arashi shibori resist walnut hull dyebath i have been doing some arashi shibori pole wrapped tie res pine needle felt learning from leiko uchiyama in april i traveled down to california to the tin thimble to take a class from my friend leiko uchiyama i was finally able to get the thoughts on printing and dyeing with botanicals part 1 pat spark august 5 2017 i love dyeing textiles doing various surface design techniques to create interesting patterns on watercolor felt tulips 3 in process i just returned from the handweavers guild of america conference convergence in tampa i really enjoyed myself there although i did work tulip 3 is finished i am very happy with the way tulip 3 came out unframed the piece is 7 x 8 now i just have to find the right frame for it felt learning during the pandemic translating foreign language videos like many people i have spent the time since march 2020 trying to improve my feltmaking skills i used this opportunity to take many onli inclusions with margilan silk an inclusion is made when you capture an object possibly one that wouldn t felt onto the wool between the wool layer when making the tuesday december 22 2020 felt learning during the pandemic translating foreign language videos like many people i have spent the time since march 2020 trying to improve my feltmaking skills i used this opportunity to take many online classes pdf tutorials streaming videos face to face classes on zoom etc i started the time very interested in learning more about various techniques being used by the russian speaking feltmakers for many years i have looked at the russian language videos on youtube since i don t speak russian i would usually just turn the sound off and pretend i was in the room with the instructor i could see wheat the person was doing but i couldn t understand the language and there was no translator in the room with us this has happened to me several times during my felting career so it doesn t really bother me if there was something written in the video that i couldn t understand i would pull up a cyrillic keyboard on line and painstakingly type out each word so i could run it through google translator this worked but it was very slow i was talking recently about general feltmaking things with a new friend on face book norm johnson he mentioned the funny translations he got from reading the translated captions on the youtube videos ding that shot off a bell in my head i thought to myself you can translate the captions on youtube that would save a lot of time for me so here is how to do it i am working with one of katerina korshun s videos in russian in this explanation she is showing how to soften a hank of stiff hard to pull viscose https www youtube com watch v 8g298irf8m0 update 1 12 2021 these instructions will work if you are using www youtube com if you are using an app they will probably not work i tried using a youtube app on my ipad and i couldn t get to the english version of the closed captions but when i used the actual program written by youtube the instructions worked translating youtube videos 1 open the youtube video you want to translate 2 select the cc closed captions option 3 when the closed captions are turned on click on settings 4 click on the right facing arrow beside the words russian auto generated 5 click on the option auto translate 6 scroll down the list to find the language you need it translated into click on that option 7 enjoy the computers translation it can be comical but it is still better than nothing thank you norm johnson for turning me on to this neat trick enjoy the many wonderful youtube videos that are available everyone happy holidays posted by pat spark spark fiber arts at 1 52 pm monday march 4 2019 inclusions with margilan silk an inclusion is made when you capture an object possibly one that wouldn t felt onto the wool between the wool layer when making the felt and the cloth layer while inclusions can be captured by opaque cloth if the cloth is sheer you can see the inclusion through it at the end of my last blog i showed this picture of a collar i made for an article i wrote on collars with inclusions and sheer cloth felt magazine issue 16 2016 december titled collar variations https www artwearpublications com au product back issue felt 16 the felt collar with inclusions between the black merino and the white silk gauze done for the article in artwear s felt magazine this is a side view diagram of the wool fiber base with an inclusion on it covered by sheer fabric the wool fiber grabs the fabric and holds it so that it captures the inclusion note the fabric doesn t have to be sheer to make an inclusion here is a patterned silk habotai with a piece of hard felt underneath it for an inclusion the pattern over the hard felt shape did not distort while the pattern over the wool fiber background distorted for this new group of experiments however i did want to use the sheer margilan silk this is part of my explorations of the silk from the city of margilan uzbekistan i used the type of margilan silk called sparse and some of the rarefied for clarification of the meaning of these words see my posts from feb 18 and 21 2019 https sparkfiberarts blogspot com 2019 02 some more information on margilan silk html https sparkfiberarts blogspot com 2019 02 marvelous margilan silk that is html here is a sample with various inclusions layout diagram layer one margilan gauze unseen in this photo layer two chevron layout with 19 micron merino top beige color layer three inclusions prefelt shapes yarns lines of viscose fiber felt balls cut in half the prefelt inclusions are white pale pink and orange layer four margilan sparse and rarified silk one half in beige and the other half greyed rose and they are overlapped in the middle layer five decorated prefelts small triangles finished sampler detail of rose colored margilan detail 2 of rose colored margilan detail of beige colored margilan detail 2 of beige colored margilan i decided to use my color studies with margilan to make some scarves and to use the secondary color gamp to be the inspiration for my colors https sparkfiberarts blogspot com 2019 02 margilan silk and color html and https sparkfiberarts blogspot com 2019 02 margilan silk and color part 2 html for the first one i made a prefelt of four thin layers of 19 micron merino in a sandy beige color i choose margilan sparse silks in lilac magenta orange rust and beige to use in collage over the prefelts the wool layer was rust colored 19 micron merino the back of the scarf was wispy blends of the same colors in viscose fiber here is the layout diagram first layer on the work surface wispy blends of viscose thank you to lubov voronin and katia mokeyeva for introducing me to these lovely fibers second layer on top of viscose 19 micron merino wool laid out in chevron style third layer shapes cut out of merino prefelt fourth layer a collage of pieces of sparse margilan silk front of scarf with detail back of scarf viscose side the next scarf was in greens yellows and blues i used the same layers as above for the layout but i tried a viscose decorated prefelt instead of one that was all wool here are some process photos note i have a small table so i make my scarves in sections after i finish the layout and set the design for a section i roll it around a rolled up towel i do this since i am using the no roll felting method developed by nancy ballesteros of treetops colour harmonies https treetopscolours com au roll felt scarf to do a lot of the felting layer one fluffy clouds of blended viscose fibers there is a layer of thin plastic underneath the viscose fibers after i laid the fibers down i spritzed a little water over the top of them to help cut down on the static electricity in the air before i went to the next layer layer two wool fiber in chevron layout note i am using the fiber managing system invented by l inna of felt tales л инна войлочные сказки you can see videos of her system on her facebook page or go to mine where i have shared her videos https www facebook com patricia spark while she uses it to hold together bits and pieces of fiber top i like it because it eases the arthritis pain in my hands the merino top goes into a 6 inch piece of foam pipe insulation which holds it then the very end of the fibers is held in position with a card i was using my auto club card here you pull back on the foam insulation and you leave a very thin shingle of wool fiber in place it does help to spritz the air with moisture if you are having static electricity problems so the wool shingle does not puff up and get out of position when the piece of wool top gets too short to stay in the foam holder i hold it just in my hand and pull it back i still use the card to hold the ends in position when the fiber was all laid out i sprinkled soapy water on the whole thing covered it with net and pressed out the air covering with net with the net in place i blotted the water off so the fibers were moist but not sopping wet now we re ready for layers three and four blotting up moisture layer three cut out pieces of prefelt for decoration in this scarf i used prefelts that had viscose fiber on them but in the pink orange scarf i used plain wool prefelts that i had made roughen up the back side of prefelts so they attach well you could add yarns or other objects at this point as well prefelts laid in position notice that i put some green viscose fiber behind the lightly colored prefelts because they blended in too much with the background this is the first end of the scarf and it is all that will fit on the width of my table about 22 inches i left about 7 inches on the front end so that i could use it to make the fringe layer four lay on the pieces of sparse margilan i cut the fabric in a variety of odd shapes and did do some overlapping pleating etc with the margilan the overlaps will still give a very smooth surface because the silk fabric is so sheer beginning to lay on the sparse margilan fabric collage now i set the design i wanted the viscose prefelts and margilan collage to stay well attached to the thin layer of wool so i wet down this whole section covered it with plastic and then used the sander on it note the sander has no sandpaper i use a portable ground fault interrupter which will shut off the machine if any water gets in to it i don t work the top end of the scarf section where the new layers for the next section will be added sander on top of plastic covered scarf from here i rolled up a dry towel and laid it on the plastic covered sanded section i rolled up the section leaving just enough of the section unrolled that i could easily start the next section and have it overlap the first section slightly 1 1 5 inches when all of the sections are done i roll a dry towel around the bundle and tie it so it doesn t unroll then i follow nancy ballesteros instructions and use the dryer to tumble my piece after 20 minutes i re rolled it from the other end and did another 20 minutes i took it out of the dryer towels and plastic and cut the fringe i rolled the fringe to felt it and then fulled the scarf finished scarf with collage prefelt side showing details of collage prefelt side viscose side and detail posted by pat spark spark fiber arts at 5 16 pm labels felt color studies feltmaking inclusions in feltmaking margilan silk nancy ballesteros no roll felting method pat spark prefelts wet felting friday february 22 2019 margilan silk and color part 2 color overlays and collage with sparse margilan silk fabric part 2 pat spark 2019 in this post i will talk about the next color gamp i made the secondary color gamp i used several versions of secondary colors like orange purple and green again i crossed the sparse margilan silk with 19 micron merino and backed the sandwich with black margilan silk gauze see part 1 here http sparkfiberarts blogspot com 2019 02 margilan silk and color html secondary color gamp this sample also has three layers like the primary color gamp from part 1 but the colors are not the same as the first post here i used secondaries orange purple and green layer 1 stripes of sparse margilan silk that were overlapped along the edges to create an additional color blend layer 2 two thin layers of merino fiber laid out in opposing directions to one another layer 3 black margilan gauze layer 1 i used different secondaries yellow orange and orange lilac violet and red violet subdued green and bright green the sparse margilan silk was laid on top of a thin layer of plastic which was on top of a large piece of shelf grip cloth to keep the strips in place they were sprinkled with soapy water and flattened onto the plastic the soapy water helped them adhere to the plastic this trick was learned from the video tutorial of maria gladchenko http www tvfelt com shop artfelt en artfelt it is titled art felt stole and bolero layer 2 i used a variety of different merino tops in the secondary colors orange and rust lilac violet and greyed violet yellow green and green since i had the space on the margilan strips i added yellow and a blue violet just for fun before adding layer 3 i used a trick i learned from katia mokeyeva i sprinkled soapy water on the pile see katia s tutorial on how to handle laying dry fabrics on top of 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