Oh yes, hair has scales and will felt! I had a lock of human hair that I dyed along with some other thing I was dying black. I had to basically card the hair afterwards to work out all the matting, think dred locks...
alex On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, landofoz <[email protected]> wrote: >> But wool has scales on the fibres that help the felting process.... hair >> doesn't. Nylon net. . . well, I don't want any of that stuff on my scalp >> :-D (of course, this _is_ Penny's topic, not mine!) >> > > Hair does have scales, just not the same as wool. > > Anyway -- scales are not necessary for needle felting. You can successfully > needle felt nearly any fiber, including synthetics. > > Denise > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- So much to do and so little attention span to get it done with… _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
