Nuno felt dress 羊毛混纖裙子

 

The nuno felt dress I just made with a designer's leftover.

一位年青時裝設計師 Martin 給我他用剩的數位印製蕾絲，布料是他特別為早前「水上華服誌」官門水道漁民生活況的服飾設計， 我利用羊毛混纖製作了這裙子，黑白分明，長長捲曲的羊毛混在其中，我姑且名為「官門水道之浪花」，其實這也是我們課程製作的樣本參考。

 

  

 Indeed this is the leftover of digital printed lace a young fashion designer, Martin used for his project for the recent floating fashion gala.  The lace printed with Chinese characters of the waterway and images of people who lived in that area.  I asked Martin for the piece to try the nuno felt skills. With little Wenslaydale curls I tested.  It works.

In the coming days  I will have private tutelage for the nuno felt garment making. So I made use of the leftover for the sample making.

 With the silk chiffon base, some merino wool, little mulberry silk and banana fibre......

A medium dress with cobweb sleeves is made. 

Mogi approves it !

  

Here's the front and back look.

 

Top of both the front and back are rich textures and drapes well.

 

Sample of simple yet elegant dress.

 This will be my own dress for a special occasion.

Modified another pair of wool felt boots 新做一款羊毛靴子

 

 The woolly boot I made with wet felt technique learnt from Natalya Brashovetska.

 The Austrian mountain sheep wool is really so easy to felt with.  I added UK Wensleydale curls for the textures.

 

Up to the hill where I live......

 

Lift up and relax over our city view........ Hong Kong is in the sub tropical zone.  We do have winter.   Normally Nov - Feb are cool days, cold below 8C at times.  But this year still not cool even hot. 

 Come on I need the cold days to cool down.........

 

 Indeed I made the boots last year started with wool layering.  After some rubbing, rolling and fulling......

 The hard work is to glue it and hand stitching.

 

Finished with the slip-in boots with flap.  After a year I thought it's no harm to do something and modify it to another style.  I cut it to have the lace style.

 Then punch the eyes for the lace holes each boot with 10 holes.  This is the only part I can't do it myself so it's done in a shop.

 

Though I don't have the former style of slip-in.  I can make another one later.

The pair now is lace tied I love.

Seasons theme wool felt teapots 四季系列羊毛茶壺

 

Set of my four different teapots. 

Spring of green field and sprout popping out

Summer of lavender field

Autumn of birches with crisp yellow leaves

Winter of flame on wood

春回大地

盛夏薰香

白樺秋意

火暖寒冬

我的季節系列羊毛茶壺以不同的主題帶出四季意境，每一個都是以羊毛濕氈封合式塑造完成，立體感、實用既可裝飾是我的目的，以下是最新製作。　　

 

Since I've done a few wool felt teapots (last post), I wanted to make a season series. 

 Added to it is Winter.  

 Winter is cold, flame is hot.  A burning pot fills a room cozy with steam and hot air.  That's why I think of a burning pot for winter.

 

  I made it with a single enclosed resist. Upper is a teapot and bottom is the burning wood.    I  put some white silk strings and mulberry silk as ashes and smoke.  Put a few onion dyed Teeswater curly fleece and red dyed Wensleydale curls as fire or flame.

 

Here it comes......The finished look of a teapot on a burning wood

Both sides look

 

I made the Winter theme of a burning teapot as I remember when I was young we went hiking or wild camps,  we used to carry with us a metal pot to set fire with wood on the rocks to make noodles or rice.

 

Nowadays we live in the urban and country parks are well built with cement BBQ stoves.  People are not bother to carry lots of stuff for cooking.  We're in Hong Kong with high rises in urban.  Much of Hong Kong's  terrain is hilly and mountainous.  Only 30-min away I'm up from my place in the mountain to have this good view but wildfire is not allowed.

 

This wool felt teapot is not only an ornament, I want it a  functional storage.

 

Mogi, "Hmmmmm, a storage for my treats ?!"

 

A flower holder is a good decoration.  

 

Whatever it serves is fun to make

 

Of the seasons theme, I like the most is this one first made in Pamela A MacGregor's workshop since the wool used is Finn.  It felts so well.  Quite firm and sturdy.  I just ordered a lot to do more 3D creations.

There're lots of my creations in my facebook page - TerLing Creations.  Please feel free to browse.

Nuno dresses for "Nuna Dolls" 娃娃新裝

I've done a series of dolls in nuno felt dresses (post here).  Recently I was asked if I can run a workshop for the making.  That made me to do with the eco printed silk scraps in my stash.  Here again my "Nuna" born........    dolls dressed in nuno felted dresses I named them "Nuna".

我曾經做了一系列穿著 nuno felt 裙子的娃娃 (此網誌), 被問及可會開班教受, 工序多又花時間, 短期不會教受了, 自己創作做多幾款裙子還可以罷, 如此我又做了兩個娃兒, 所有穿 nuno felt 裙子的我都叫作 "Nuna 娃", 這兩娃兒下海了.........

She walks in lavender field.......

 

She looks in the South China Sea near my studio.......

How the dolls born?      Here they go......

 

Paper clay bodies dried 

With helping hands of Mogi to paint the eyes, mouth.....

 

All materials for dress making are ready......

 

Laid both front and back, front is with more eucalyptus printed scraps and mulberry silk, back is of iron dyed with tie lines on the bottom.  All done with enclosed resist without needle or thread.  Finished then shaped with the body.

 

Rich texture of the front is what I want 

 

A nun?   No no.... Touch up with hair, arms and hat will be a fair lady.

 

Hair is Wensleydale curls

 

Well..... dressed up for the show

 

Walk in the beach........ with the little one......

 

More of less the same making for the little one but it has legs

 

Dancing in the air.....  

 

Rest on the rock

 

  Size and the look

 

Making them really takes time. That said running a workshop is not considered for the time being but for my own leisure another one of white dress is in the making.