How does that craft where you stab a ball of fluff with a needle until it looks like something work?

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• Dr_Nik@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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).

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales

    TIL sheep are shitty dragons

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    • Dr_Nik@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OMG I love this and am stealing this.

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is my cats hair rolled into a dreadlock pretzel

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 hairs to solidify into a ball, I just massage a bunch of it like a snowball.

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    • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can definitely felt cat hair.

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• Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You know what the insanity is? Yes, you know…

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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