In fact, everyone should be familiar with wool felt, which is a form of fabric that uses wool to make handmade artworks, with a long history, at least 8,000 years of history. Wool combines the dual characteristics of softness and hardness, is soft and comfortable to the touch, and is easy to restore, making it the perfect choice for many artists and craft enthusiasts in creating handmade artworks.
If you are a pure artisan enthusiast, you can use wool felt to make some simple accessories, jewelry, groceries and so on. But artists can use this material to give it more possibilities, such as the Russian textile artist Yulia Derevskykova, who made ultra-realistic felt animals out of wool, which are lifelike, cute and cute, and make people's hearts cute.
Xiao Dai here by the way to popularize the principle of felt production, wool looks delicate and soft, the surface is covered with a lot of scale tissue that is not easy to see with the naked eye, when these scales encounter hot water, they will stretch out, and the scales will also stand up, at this time, after squeezing, rubbing, rubbing processing by external forces, will make the scale tissue entangled with each other, tightly gathered and contracted together to achieve a felted state, which is "wet felt".
In addition to wet felt, you can also use the wool poke needle, constantly shuttle poke on the wool, will also achieve the felt effect, we call it "needle felt". And the artist adopts the technique of "needle felt". The felt animals created by Yulia Derevskykova are not only real, but also full of fairytale atmosphere, looking like they can only be seen in the forest in Disney cartoons.
Creating such a cute little animal, which takes about 20 hours to complete, the artist uses a needle to carefully fuse the wool fibers together to form a furry feeling that looks like it is covered by real fur. From the little fox to the little bunny, each delightful piece is designed in the artist's unique cute style. In addition to their furry bodies, many animals have slender beards, small noses, and large round eyes that bring cute characters to life.
Yulia has been creating felt animals since six years ago, and the more she does it, the more handy and the details are richer, next, let's enjoy the cute and cute felt animals made by this artist, tell me which one you are cute?