How does that craft where you stab a ball of fluff with a needle until it looks like something work?
5mon 3d ago by lemmy.world/u/spittingimage in nostupidquestions
You know how a wool sweater can felt? It shrinks and loses it's ability to stretch? That's the same principle. By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales. The needle you use is actually not just any needle but it is designed to create as much disorder and compression as possible (so typically it's actually 3 or more needles).
By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales
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It's called felting. It's just condensing all the hairs together. They have to be coarse enough to bind to each other
Fun fact, you can felt dog hair but not cat hair
This is my cats hair rolled into a dreadlock pretzel
Fun fact, you can felt dog hair but not cat hair
You can absolutely felt cat hair.
I don't even need needles to get my cats fur to solidify into a ball, I just massage a bunch of it like a snowball.
Huh I've tried felting cat hair before and had zero success. It's too long, I ended up just burying it in regular felt. Whereas my dog's hair was super easy to felt into a mini version of her
Probably depends on the cat and hair length
You can definitely felt cat hair.
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