Taupe-colored, wool "un-spun" (AKA pencil roving)...
...from a Portuguese fiber mill...
...provides the design element for this bag.
It's covered with several layers of wool roving...
...then felted, cut open, and flipped
right-side out.
The finished felt piece...
...on display at our class 'open house'.
(Shown here with a classmate's plant- and rust-dyed scarf.)
The finished bag (back)...
...and front...
...with ceramic button...
...and 'suede-side-out' leather buttonhole and strap.
The finished purse.
While in Portugal, I fiddled around with some wool pencil roving...
...that I found in a local fiber mill.
After placing it on the surface of the resist...
...I covered it with layers of white wool roving and felted it inside-out.
The
suede side of a piece of black leather was used to fashion the strap and buttonhole...
...and a ceramic button completes the project.
