How To Make A Rug From Sheep Fleece

Making a rug with blue texel sheep fleece this is the raw fleece of a blue texel sheep.

How to make a rug from sheep fleece.

I do prefer fall icelandic fleeces over spring fleeces because they are cleaner less hay and things. Shetland fleece is probably too soft but all of the others have fleece that is often used in rug making. 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. 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.

I m going to teach you exactly how i make a rectangular 2 ft by 3 ft lamb fleece rug. Felting a large sheepskin a fluffy felt rug has been on my to do list just about since i started felting. Natural ethically made rugs finished felted fleece rug. Feel free to use a fleece from different breed of sheep in a different color or even a spring fleece.

Learn how to make a fleece rug with these step by step instructions. Making a vegetarian sheepskin rug is quite a complex process. I was intimidated at the prospect of working with a raw fleece full of vegetable matter and animals waste. We currently have four sheep 1 cotswold 1 mini cheviot 2 shetlands but were just gifted 9 cotswolds and 3 navajo churros that are coming in a couple days.

There are projects and then there are projects that live in your dreams. For one reason or another i put it off. 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. Navajo churro have been perfected by the navajo indians for very fine complex.

Learn wet felting to make a sheep fleece rug. Although unwashed it had very little dried grass in it and had been cleared of all matted dirt in short no sheep shit.