Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, and combined with synthetic fibers such as acrylic or rayon. Various fabrics and fibres, especially silk, can also be incorporated to give a beautiful, textural and long-lasting fabric.

During the wet felting process the repeated agitation and compression causes the fibers to hook or weave together into a single piece of fabric.

It is natural process, turning wool fibres into something solid, strong and durable, purely with the aid of olive soap and water with a good helping of elbow grease – I find the process purely magical.

You learn to be flexible with wet felting. What is created is not necessarily what you initially had in mind. Wool fibres are mobile they have to be in order to create a strong felt. What you have laid out is not what the end result will be. You learn to “go with” this and that’s what makes it so exciting. You are never quite sure what the end result will be. This leads to truly unique and bespoke designs.