Felt making

Flat felting is a really funb and easy way to make things with children.  Here we were making a purse.  The main part of the process involves bashing squeezing and twisting the wool once wrapped up in bubble wrap so that the wool fibres knit together and thus form felt.

Here is a wool fibre under the microscope.   You can clearly see the scales which are there which catch with scales on other fibres and mesh together.