The rollers I've made for pillows used the fibrous-type carpet padding. That's getting harder to find, more and more carpet stores sell only the foam rubber type. The short ends should be cut at an angle (taper the material) so that there are no ridges where the padding starts and stops. The rug padding is a lot thicker than wool blankets, so it doesn't take as much tedious winding. Then a relatively short strip of wool blanket over the padding and a cover. The fibrous padding holds the pins well and is easily penetrated by them.
Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA [email protected] ---- [email protected] wrote: There are ways to make long-lasting rollers, and ways that are shorter lived. The best rollers, and long lasting, are made from wool fabric, rolled around a supporting dowel. They need to be just deeper than the length of pins to be used. Thick sections of cotton fabric would be hard to pin into. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
