If you love the extra-soft and fluffy feel of freshly tumbled laundry, but you’re hesitant to use chemical-laden dryer sheets, wrinkle sprays, or liquid fabric softeners, felted wool dryer balls ...

Ancient Felt Wool Traditions Meet Modernity With These Cozy Slippers. ... After all, felt is believed to be the oldest fabric in the world, with evidence of it dating back to 6500 BC.

Testing the absorption capacity, water retention, and drying time of wool, synthetic, and cotton shirts. Wool as strictly a winter layer is an old idea. “‘Wool is warm’ is a 1960s perception ...

How to Remove Fabric Pilling—and Prevent Those Annoying Balls from ... “Aggressive agitation in warm or hot water of a wool item is all that’s needed to felt wool fibers,” Gagliardi ...

For now, shiny fabrics you can wipe clean may be the best bet. Protecting against bacteria is easier – wool, cashmere and silk are naturally antibacterial Reading Time: 4 minutes ...

As a child, Kathy Gaul loved the idea of designing and producing her own craftworks, each stitch an expression of her creativity.

They’re constructed of felted wool, soft to the touch. My favorite is a hat with an “ Aya Huma” mask embroidered on it. The figure is meant to be worn during the winter solstice celebration called “ ...

Sheila Morissette shows strands of wool before she felts them into a piece of silk. She not only uses the felted wool to make garments and scarves but also jewelry and the circles for her mobiles.