Welcome to New World Felting
My name is Jodi Pirog and I love to felt. I am the owner, designer, and everything else of New World Felting. Felting wool is an ancient process that requires the wool roving to be subjected to heat, soap and agitation. The heat opens up the scales on the individual wool fibres allowing them to “matt” together, the soap allows the fibres to “slip” pass each other and intermingle and the agitation is what causes the fibres to become friendly with each other. Once the process is complete then very cold water is used to rinse the felt and lock down the fibres. That is the reason you always wash wool by hand in cold water, if you used hot water you would start the felting process all over again.
I am a constant experimenter and as a result I have self-taught myself the art of felting. By combining silks and cottons with various wools I have achieved light weight but warm products for my customers. I also felt in 3D which allows me to create hats, handbags, and other assorted accessories. By adding embellishments like beading, embroidery and hand dying my wools, silks and cottons the combinations of colors and various types of products are endless. I spend the off season going to large fibre festivals to review and purchase the newest materials to bring my customers the latest and greatest in the world of wool.
I love to meet the people who come to the markets to show them my product line and put a smile on their faces when they see the colour, quality and versatility of my felted items.
My name is Jodi Pirog and I love to felt. I am the owner, designer, and everything else of New World Felting. Felting wool is an ancient process that requires the wool roving to be subjected to heat, soap and agitation. The heat opens up the scales on the individual wool fibres allowing them to “matt” together, the soap allows the fibres to “slip” pass each other and intermingle and the agitation is what causes the fibres to become friendly with each other. Once the process is complete then very cold water is used to rinse the felt and lock down the fibres. That is the reason you always wash wool by hand in cold water, if you used hot water you would start the felting process all over again.
I am a constant experimenter and as a result I have self-taught myself the art of felting. By combining silks and cottons with various wools I have achieved light weight but warm products for my customers. I also felt in 3D which allows me to create hats, handbags, and other assorted accessories. By adding embellishments like beading, embroidery and hand dying my wools, silks and cottons the combinations of colors and various types of products are endless. I spend the off season going to large fibre festivals to review and purchase the newest materials to bring my customers the latest and greatest in the world of wool.
I love to meet the people who come to the markets to show them my product line and put a smile on their faces when they see the colour, quality and versatility of my felted items.