I am looking to add a couple colored accessories in the form of removable felted wool dreads [my hair is 100% black]. I have never felted anything. Anyone do this? Tips?
check out this thread: http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=5780880#post5780880 should be some useful information....
You'd need to get roving. Usually found in a yarn shop. Then get it wet with hot then cold water and palmroll it. Do that a few times alternating between hot and cold water and you should have a felted dread. You can then attach it to your hair but I am not sure how to do this. Or you can get the wool roving and wrap your dreads, but I am sure that may get tangled in your hair and cause it to be permanent. You can dye roving if it is white with food coloring, or kool-aid. Wrapping Felting Roving for Dreadlock
to attach, you'd just need to make a hole/loop at the end of the roving so you can slide it onto the root of a dread.
Thanks for the tips, I am not interested in permanant attachments by any means (felting the wool into my actual dreads, or anything like that) Just making wool dread locks and I was just going to bobby pin them in and out.
Wool felting is awesome and there are endless possibilities. You can google Wool felting how to and come up with lots of info. Youtube has an excellent video on felting that helped me learn how to do it when I started last year. And it's true - you can use hair dyes (Manic Panic, Adore) to custom dye your wool (leave it in the dye overnight, then rinse w/ water). Someone on etsy sells adorable felted locks with little flowers felted onto them, but the prices are sky-high (about $60/lock). Looking at them is inspirational, though. Have fun!
I was going to try and go for naturally dyed/organic roving and just pick stuff that people have already died. I am wary of using chemicals on stuff that is going to be near my skin on a regular basis (So says the chick who is addicted to hair dye)
fuck buying anything, go see a field of sheep and you'll think they built the fence out of fleece, just pick it off and give it a wash.
Well that sounds like a great idea. Only they dont grow sheep anywhere near the city, let alone the ghetto of major metropolitan areas. I just need to get some angora buns and felt that.
