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If you're considering felt making with your students give us a call and  we can post your fibres before invoicing you. All we require is an order number.

 

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Felt making supplies for schools and colleges

We supply quality fibres for hand spinning, felt making and paper making to schools, colleges, universities and other public bodies in a wide variety of educational settings.

Felt by Water Street School, Skipton Orders can be made through our website and paid for online using paypal (you do NOT need a paypal account for this, there is an option to pay by debit / credit card). If you don’t have a school/college debit or credit card then our education system may be for you.

  1. Call or fax through an order to 01943 850812 or place it online, quoting the school/college purchase order number, to whom the fibres should be delivered and a date by which they are required.
  2. We’ll pack and post your fibres which are despatched next working day or same working day for smaller orders.
  3. We’ll supply a separate VAT invoice to the finance office which is then payable within 30 days.

All education orders receive free priority ordering and free advice on choosing suitable fibres and quantities to suit your individual projects.

Which fibres?

We have a wide variety of fibres all of which are suitable for hand spinning and the majority are also suitable for felt making. Merino fibres are most popular as we can supply in a wide range of ready dyed colours . It’s a soft fibre suitable for all kinds of uses but especially for garments and it felts easily.

Blue Faced Leicester is an extremely versatile fibre, excellent for all uses, felts readily and comes in three natural shades: white, oatmeal and black.

We also stock a limited range of dyed English wool fibres. English is slower to felt but produces a robust fabric, spins well and is very reasonably priced.

How much fibre do I need?

It depends very much on the project and the number of wool layers required for the felt, but here is a very basic guide

We recommend three layers of wool, each layer laid at 90 degrees to the previous layer. To lay out at the size of an A4 piece of paper we reckon you need approximately 25g of fibre per student. Bear in mind that the finished size will be smaller as the wool will shrink between 30% - 40% on average.