How To Make A Rug From Sheep Fleece

Making a vegetarian sheepskin rug is quite a complex process.

How to make a rug from sheep fleece.

You don t have to kill an animal for this attractive faux sheepskin rug. Learn wet felting to make a sheep fleece rug. Making a rug with blue texel sheep fleece this is the raw fleece of a blue texel sheep. Learn how to make a fleece rug with these step by step instructions.

Natural ethically made rugs finished felted fleece rug. We currently have four sheep 1 cotswold 1 mini cheviot 2 shetlands but were just gifted 9 cotswolds and 3 navajo churros that are coming in a couple days. Felting a large sheepskin a fluffy felt rug has been on my to do list just about since i started felting. I was intimidated at the prospect of working with a raw fleece full of vegetable matter and animals waste.

Although unwashed it had very little dried grass in it and had been cleared of all matted dirt in short no sheep shit. Thanks to this most of the tail wool is missing but it was easy to tell the tail end on the right of the picture because the locks. Finally i lay the rug out flat to dry and give it a final check to make sure no locks have come loose and everything is where it should be ta daaa. This is a part of my yule goat costume project to see the finished costume or if you want to support my art go to this post.

There are projects and then there are projects that live in your dreams. I m going to teach you exactly how i make a rectangular 2 ft by 3 ft lamb fleece rug. Feel free to use a fleece from different breed of sheep in a different color or even a spring fleece. For one reason or another i put it off.

There are lots of things to consider such as which is the best type of fleece to use as fleeces from different breeds of sheep respond differently to the felting process. We love using our sheep s wool to make felted fleece rugs.