Boiled Wool Cardigan

To neglect one of the orders knitting basic, "You will not put wool in hot water" is to risk suffering the dreaded consequence of such action - the very small very stiff sweaters and small in which these no member of the family would never want to grow. But to approach hot water as the friend not enemy, allows an occasion to appreciate a new wonderful perspective on the rows of knit and them mesh points. As a distinct change of results of texture and appearance of the process of felting, knit of no simple bottom can be transformed magically all without the knowledge of complicate knitting the technique.

Felt is a hot fabric and prota¨geant of the wind that despite his texture tangled remarkably light and soft remainder the key. To produce a muffled fabric, the basic first matter always is the same but the production method can vary. The first matter that is common to all the methods is a fiber of diverted protein of an animal source, a more often wool. The other fibers of protein as the mohair, the angora, the alpaca, and some furs can be also with success felted. The why fibers only animal? It is because these fibers have a structure of unique surface that consists in ladders that overlap. These ladders in the reaction to be dived in hot water, open and each hang other create the new formations. This interlocking process is more helped while rubbing the ladders together by some agitation form as the pedtrissage to the hand or the action of a machine to wash. Ampler to mix ladder is attained while doing the slick ladders using a sudsy, the soapy solution. Once these ladders found their new positions on the surface of fabric, there is not to return. These ladders recently disposed remain closed to key together in their last relations and the happy result is felt.

"Felting" is the term defined most often the transformation of a fiber of protein in this hot and fabric wonderful. In the direction more strict, felting describes the procedure to take batts of toison of wool (the raw wool that was not turned in the wire), adding hot, soapy water and the pedtrissage of the batt of wool until the fiber ladders set in motion. The "filz" of word is found in Old German Top. This language was in the usage before the 12E century, an indication that when felting today we continue to explore a very old trade.

"Fulling" is the process to produce felt fabric of the wire of animal fiber that already was woven or was knit. Fulling takes woven fabric or knit by the process of water and the hot agitation to facilitate the decline and creates the fabric of felted. In the Effective Means, "fullers" was the textile workers that used the Earth of Fuller, an extremely clay of adsorptive that removed grease and oils of woven fabric. The agitation of the action of cleaning would shrink and matt that the fibers that create a fabric that would not undo. The stems of fulling of term of "fullare", a word Medieval Latin direction "to walk on or tramples". This process underlines the agitation that is demanded in to fuss over these fiber ladders to intertwine. Today, this is more common to see the Earth of used Fuller as an ingredient in a mask of cosmetic face, where it rule its strengths shrinking to the others try.

"Boiled wool" is another descriptive term for the fabric of felted. This is characteristic fabric produces and fashioned to Austria of the chic Tyrolian jackets embellished with to secure braid and the tin buttons. Again, the basic first matter is wire of wool. The process is the even as fulling but completed on an industrial level to facilitate the handling of bigger quantities. The computerized checks finely grant levels of temperature of water and the agitation force to produce a coherent result. The wire first is tinted, then to knit and shrunken without the assistance of chemical products. This process produces fabric felt available by the yard, ready for the cutting in the model pieces to be assembled in the clothing.

Allow time itself to test with the process of felting and how the knit wire reacts. Knit the samples of test to stock the point in a wire of pure wool. A prudence must be observed. Do not use a wool wire that was treated as a wire of superwash, in of other terms a wire that can be machines washed without the decline fear. Since it is the decline that is the objective in felting, these sons are not suitable for the projects of felting. Knit a number of samples, maybe in the different wire weighs and colors, while doing the grade of the knit measures of each. Place these samples in the cycle of hot water of the machine to wash, removing after the rinasage and rotation dry cycles. Ensconce on the edges of the samples and allow drying flat. Measure the samples and compare again to the original measures. If felting has intervened, it is indicated not only by the measure change but in the texture of fabric. Delay the sample of fabric of felted to a strong light, the one should be able to distinguish scarcely the gate of points and of rows. The sample of felted should very be tangled and if you cut to knit it, it will not undo. Notice that knit it soft and light not stiff remainder and hard.

If you moved yourself on to transform your hand knits in a clothing of felted, you can think that that is crossed the most vigorous and most tortured one to wash that knit wire could never endure. Now and forever more, you suppose that you can launch this clothing of felted in the hot one washes the cycle. Treat your clothing of felted with "the wool rules". The hand washes to use a soft savon or a wool detergent in tepid water and does not rub or leaves to soak as ampler felting can arrive. After rinsing meticulous, to dry flat. Felted handknitting always can be improved with to brush and even one to support light with a hot iron to produce a surface appearance does more smooth. If you store the clothing of felted for a time that it is necessary extended, are sure to wrinkle an insecticide of night butterfly in the clothing.

These are the basic indications to begin you down below the way of felted. If you jump the step and test with the different weight of wire, the brands and the colors, you will increase your knowledge of what arrives really when a special wire encounter of hot water. After all, to knit it is easy and the results can be spectacular.