Hat Shapers – Felt Hats have traditionally been hand formed on a wooden, head sized and shaped, block.

Speedball has developed two screen printing kits, the Diazo Fabric and the Paper Screen Printing Kit which includes all the essentials needed for the photo emulsion screen printing process which is one of the most exciting screen printing techniques. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] A further polymer clay from Polyform is Super Sculpey which does not ‘fill in’ after tooling.

A simple bag shape or slipper can be made using a plastic bag or bubble wrap and larger items can be created using a plastic bowl or a stone. As a result the products are always produced utilizing the newest standards in chemical technology to achieve quality and consistency. Jacquard Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are fine glistening mica powders for use in viscose mediums such as resin, lacquer, varnish and binders, and Jacquard SolarFast dyes work with sunlight to produce “cyanotype” blue print effects – but in a range of different colours!

The business was founded in 1921 and since that time has produced a wide range of specialist high quality paints and dyes for use by artists and craftsmen around the world. Their first product was the W70 Table Loom, later succeeded by the Kombo, Jane, David, as well as the Megado, and Magic Dobby looms.Fimo – FIMO is a plastic compound with a wide range of uses, from play material for children, jewellery from craftsmen to professional model making for architects, designers and miniaturists. It reviews and reports on the work of leading crafts people and exhibitions and includes news from the WSD Guilds.

Continue reading… For crafts, such as card making and scrapbooking, there are unique handmade papers to add texture and colour and a choice of coloured paper or card in sheets of A4 and A1. These allow the artist to first use drawing techniques and then develop their work into a water colour, painterly style of image.They have been designed for animal fibre, and work wonderfully well with wool using wet manipulation, and “steam and heat” hat felting Hat Shapers are made from strong lightweight ABS plastic, the sort also used in vast quantities for forming internal automotive and caravan panels. A felting needle can be used to sculpt 3 dimensional shapes such as animals and flowers, and to add detail to faces. For several years he worked on methods of production, exploring colour sequences and developing the texture of his pigment mixtures.

The Pony Classic knitting needle range has been designed to meet the needs of every knitting enthusiast.

The company now works with a number of spinning mills across Europe who are commissioned to spin yarn and with dye houses to dye the yarns in the Venne range of colours.