Felted wardrobe elements look elegant and stylish, so today many fashionable women replenish their wardrobe with luxurious scarves made using the technique of dry or wet felting.
Features of wet felting
Wet felting allows you to create plain hats and scarves. Using this technique, clothing items are characterized by a soft color transition. A special feature is the tangling of non-spun wool fibers.
To start wet felting, you will need wool, flax or silk fibers, as well as regular soap and a felting machine or a stick.
A handmade felted scarf is very elastic and soft. Due to the variety of fibers, you can create models for any season - warm merino wool for winter, demi-season for spring or autumn days and, of course, light and airy from thin silk for hot summer.
Benefits
- Felted scarf is characterized by unpretentious care. He is not afraid of creases or jams, since he quickly acquires an attractive appearance. Strong creases can be corrected by lightly tapping with wet hands.
- Due to its density, this element of the wardrobe is comfortable to rest on the neck, creating freedom of movement and preventing sweating.
- Felt scarf is durable. Even with a long wear it does not form the pellets.
- Felt fiber is antistatic, so the hairstyle will not electrify.
- The softness of the felted scarf allows you to embody interesting models, using an additional technique of dry felting to create original drawings and ornaments.
Models
The range of beautiful and unusual felted scarves is surprising, because designers are constantly experimenting using attractive textures, original prints and new materials.
Gossamer
The cobweb scarf is characterized by softness and an original pattern, which is formed due to the laying out of contrasting color rings. Ornate pattern gives the product refinement and tenderness.
The cobweb is created from lace and mohair with a small addition of flax, viscose and wool. Many girls choose such models because of translucency. Scarf can be thrown over the shoulders. The combination of lightness and warmth is its main advantage.
From felt
All products made of felt perfectly keep their shape, which is why scarves are in great demand. By fantasizing, you can create amazing models that will help to embody an unforgettable bow.
A felt scarf surprises with a variety of shapes. From small plates you can create a pattern in the form of a rose. This model is ideal as a decoration for evening bow. Warm scarves are often presented in the form of a collar, which has a hook or large button. It is ideal if the outerwear does not have a gate.
Cabbage
This model attracts the attention of the fair sex with grace and elegance. Cabbage scarf will be a spectacular decoration of an evening or solemn bow, giving it originality.
This scarf is made exclusively of wool through the use of wet felting technique. The name "cabbage" product received because of the volume of soft flounces that resemble cabbage leaves. To maintain this shape, designers use additional decorative elements - buttons, hooks, flowers, etc.
On gauze
The technique of wet felting belongs to the real art, because the result is original products.Since silk is a rather expensive material, it can be replaced with cotton gauze, and this will not affect the beauty and sophistication of the product itself.
Felting on gauze allows you to create patterns of thin fibers of yarn. If desired, you can additionally decorate the scarf with unique, three-dimensional patterns using a felting needle.
The gauze scarf is soft, so it can be tied around the neck in any way.
What to wear?
Felted scarf is not just a wardrobe item, but is used for decoration. Do not hide such beauty under the outerwear. Usually stoles are tied over the top of outerwear. Felt scarf is often tied around the neck over the collar. Products from silk usually adorn the neck with an unusual pattern.
Such scarves can be combined not only with outerwear, but also with sweaters or dresses. It looks very nice top with a V-neck in tandem with felted scarf.
