needle felting
Barbed wool stabbing
Needle felting is a craft technique that uses barbed needles to mat and shape loose wool fibers into dense, sculpted forms.
The repeated stabbing tangles the fibers together without spinning or weaving.
Artists create three-dimensional figures, decorative objects, and textured surfaces: She needle felted a tiny owl from merino wool.
The term also refers to the hobby itself.
- woolSheared animal fiber
- rovingMoving from place to place
- barbedHaving sharp projections
- pokingLight repeated jabbing
- sculptingShaping material into forms
fiber · craft · stabbing · fluffy · soft · merino · batting · animals · figurines · mat · foam · texture · handmade · shaping · soft sculpture · tiny sculptures · alpaca · fuzzy
- fiber artsknitting, crochet, weaving, spinning, embroidery
- fiber craftsyarn, wool, cotton, silk, linen
- feltingmerino wool, wool fibers, roving, merino, fulling
- wool processingshearing, washing, scouring, carding, combing
- woolcraftwool fiber, wool yarn, raw wool, fleece, wool wash
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors