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Needle Felted Green Dragonby ~tallydragon

Artisan Crafts / Textiles / Fiber Art

This is a very small needle felted dragon that I made for my mom, who wanted a dragon that could sit on the hand of a Super Dollfie. He also sits great on my fingers! More pictures of this guy to come as I take them.

Needle felting, for those unfamiliar with it, is a technique that uses special barbed needles to essentially create a 'wool sculpture'. It's the same way they make the felt you buy in stores, except that by only using one needle at a time and adding wool as you go, you can control the shape of the felt. I'm still a beginner, but I'm working at it!

He is made out of natural wools from the Iron Horse Farm, a local fiber farm, and the Flying Ewe, a fiber arts website. He has a wire understructure through most of his body that makes his wings, legs, and tail moderately poseable--the tail is extra long so that it can curl around the finger its sitting on. He's got glass eyes held in by glue and wires, and his horns are made out of wire covered in apoxie sculpt, topped with acrylic paint and matte varnish. The wing membranes are actually white store-bought felt, which I then added a thin layer of pale green wool to...I thought it would make it stronger that way.

The ungainly thing he is sitting upon is my knee. XD

Colored wools, glass eyes, wire, felt, apoxie sculpt, acrylic, varnish, and needle felting needles.

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Given 2007-06-24

Needle Felted Green Dragon by ~tallydragon Felting is sculpting with fiber, true "fiber art"! I've seen kit dogs and cats, but this is the first time I've seen something this amazing made with this art form! ( Featured by `dedredhed )

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~weird101 Apr 16, 2012

Awwww Its so cute ^-^

~aurawolf21 Apr 11, 2012

SOOOOOOOOOO EPIC AND CUTE!!!

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~AnkhLock Apr 8, 2012 New member Student General Artist

Hello
I love all your dragons and i also thought you might want to know that I started needle felting because of your stuff
So thanks
Ankhlock

~tallydragon Apr 11, 2012

Thank you! I'm really glad to have inspired someone to take up needle felting--it's a very unique art that needs more love.

~AnkhLock Apr 13, 2012 New member Student General Artist

I agree. i'll try and put some of my less-spectacular stuff on my profile.

*GAARA180 Apr 4, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

So cute!

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''Where ever they heart dothe roam, one shall forever return to thee''-Lycaon Geshier

~bethcdh Mar 9, 2012 New member

So cute! How did you start? Is there a book you recommend, or did you just surf around the 'net for how to's?

~tallydragon Mar 14, 2012

I took a local oneshot class.

But there are certainly plenty of good tutorials around, and also starter kits available. I just haven't used them so I don't have anything specific to recommend. ^_^;

~LadyTyphoo Mar 8, 2012 Student Artisan Crafter

Lovely, just lovely. Well done you.

~Xeysra Feb 20, 2012

Oh. My. Gosh. This is so great!

How did you learn how to do it?!

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