How To Make A Rug From Sheep Fleece

Learn wet felting to make a sheep fleece rug.

How to make a rug from sheep fleece.

Although unwashed it had very little dried grass in it and had been cleared of all matted dirt in short no sheep shit. You don t have to kill an animal for this attractive faux sheepskin rug. Learn how to make a fleece rug with these step by step instructions. For one reason or another i put it off.

Thanks to this most of the tail wool is missing but it was easy to tell the tail end on the right of the picture because the locks. There are projects and then there are projects that live in your dreams. I was intimidated at the prospect of working with a raw fleece full of vegetable matter and animals waste. I do prefer fall icelandic fleeces over spring fleeces because they are cleaner less hay and things.

Felting a large sheepskin a fluffy felt rug has been on my to do list just about since i started felting. I m going to teach you exactly how i make a rectangular 2 ft by 3 ft lamb fleece rug. Making a rug with blue texel sheep fleece this is the raw fleece of a blue texel sheep. Shetland fleece is probably too soft but all of the others have fleece that is often used in rug making.

We love using our sheep s wool to make felted fleece rugs. Feel free to use a fleece from different breed of sheep in a different color or even a spring fleece. Finally i lay the rug out flat to dry and give it a final check to make sure no locks have come loose and everything is where it should be ta daaa. This is a part of my yule goat costume project to see the finished costume or if you want to support my art go to this post.

Making a vegetarian sheepskin rug is quite a complex process. There are lots of things to consider such as which is the best type of fleece to use as fleeces from different breeds of sheep respond differently to the felting process.