It is impossible not to note that our old boots return to fashion. This is truly Russian shoes, which is perfect for winter frosts. Did you know what boots do not need to go to a deaf village or buy for mad money in the store? Flawing boots at home allows you to make the process rapid and interesting, in our article we will tell you how to do it.
Main job
The process of felting rivets from wool is difficult, long, but very interesting. So, you will need to work:
- Wool;
- Template;
- Film with pouchers, such is usually used for packaging fragile materials, it is possible to buy it in a construction store;
- Grid;
- Hot water;
- Liquid soap (soap solution can be used);
- Towel;
- In our master class we used a bath rug.
First you need to remove the measurements and taking into account all the sizes to make the pattern, the size should be increased by about forty percent, because the wool will sit down during the felting. To build the drawing, you can use the template you suggested.
We tear off the wool with small pieces and put on the template, the wool must "look" in one direction, the next layer wool "looks" in the opposite direction. We continue to lay out about three or four layers in this way.
After completing the work with the first side, you need to cover the product with a mesh, water all this case with a hot soap solution, stroke and increase the power of pressing.
Now the product needs to turn over, all the protruding pieces of wool wrap and do all the same actions as with the first side.
Over the grid again, we water the soapy solution.
The product turn over and sweep the protruding pieces.
At this stage of work, our boots should look like the photo below:
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Now the grid must be changed to the pupil film, due to its design, this film evenly distributes pressure, thereby accelerating the felting process. Now you need to press very much, movements must be confident.
You can even take advantage of auxiliary objects:
Now we remove the pupil film and check how well our boots falls.
If the hairs are easily separated, it means you need to work more intense, the product should not be very raw and in no case is cold, if necessary, you can add a soap solution based on hot water.
If the product began to decrease in size, the workpiece must be cut: we have two parts.
We continue to knock, equip, roll, it is very important to attach more effort when working with cuts and nose.
Our boots are ready, you can fill them with packages, newspapers or simply paper, it is necessary for the boots to take the right and beautiful shape.
By this principle, you can make wonderful souvenir boots and use them to decorate the interior to the New Year holiday or as an ornament on the Christmas tree.
Of course, the boots, which in fashion today, are somewhat different from those worn in the old days our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers. You yourself could see in the store painted boots or embroidered, you can also decorate your product, making embroidery on it, while playing with special paints, here you can give freedom of your imagination.
Interesting decorations
As mentioned above, you can decorate the boots in different ways, and we will tell you the most popular of them.
Lace
It seems that this is an unusual option for decorating the boots, but the product decorated with this material looks very feminine, gently and unusual, in such a shoe you will be like a real Snow Maiden. The image can be added by the beads. Before you sew the lace to the boots, it is worth a pretty stroke the iron.
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Fur
Fur finish not only give your shoes finished and beautiful, but also serve as an additional insulation. It is worth noting that fur can be used both artificial and natural.
Applique
Applique can be made absolutely from any fabric (felt, wool, leather, and so on), you can choose any image that you only like it, you can print a template from a computer and transfer it to a product with a disappearing marker (which is sold at any needlework store ). Application can be sewed or glued.
Painted
Everything is simple here. We take special waterproof paints, draw contour and paint. Even if you do not know how to draw, you can cope with this task. Just find the stencil you need and blaming it.
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Now that you met with the process of felting felt boots at home, you can easily cope with this task. You even know some ways to decorate this product, we only told about some, because the technicians described in the article are far from all ways to decorate boots. We offer you even watch a video from this selection, thanks to which you can consolidate the knowledge gained and learn some ideas.