Where to Buy Bulk Wool and Silk for Dyeing, Handspun Yarn and Feltmaking

Want to know where to get great deals on bulk quantities of wool and silk for your fiber arts? 

Check out these sources and suppliers for your handmade fiber crafts!

I've been doing fiber crafts since about 2005 when I caught the feltmaking bug after taking a college fiber arts course. That obsession quickly turned into a small business which I playfully named "The Funky Felter" and opened an Etsy shop as well as started selling at craft shows across the Midwestern United States.

A great resource for aspiring feltmakers - The Felting and Needle Felting Forum!

Are you an aspiring feltmaker? Do you have questions about needle or wet felting techniques? Or perhaps you just want to connect with other fiber artists who love the art of feltmaking as much as you do. Then head on over to The Felting and Needle Felting Forum!

This resourceful forum is the brain child of Marie Spaulding of Living Felt. Since I first joined the forum over a year ago now, it has grown in topics and capabilities. This wonderful feltmakers' forum now offers online classes, talented and well-known guest moderators, monthly contests, and much more! It is also one of the best sources of felting information that I have ever come across on the internet. You can really find any topic related to traditional and modern feltmaking techniques there. It covers a wide range of subjects from supplies to tutorials and beyond. It is also now the forum home for the Needle Felting Etsy Street Team of which I am a proud member.

I have not had the time to frequent this forum as much as I'd like recently, and I really miss it as a source of great information and inspiration. I suggest that we all go visit this great felting resource soon! It is certainly worth our time!


**The image is a screen shot from The Felting and Needle Felting Forum.

A Wonderful Resource for Textile & Fiber Artists! Check out TextileArts.net for inspiration, techniques, and more!

There's certainly a LOT of resource sites out there on the web. You can find information on anything, but sometimes I'm sure that you wonder if it is good and reliable. I've found some topics, like textiles and fiber arts, to be a little harder to find on the web - especially when it comes to a fully equipped resource sites for the subject. That's why I'm recommending that you check out TextileArts.net, a UK based website for textile and fiber artists.

TextileArts.net has a wide variety of categories that include people & places, techniques, inspirations, and much more. They even have a shop with textile art books available for purchase. My favorite category right now has to be people & places. I enjoy browsing through their website listings. I always come across a designer who inspires or intrigues me. I also feel honored to be listed there among so many talented textile and fiber artists.

	any wordall words

Please use the search feature above to browse their website or just go directly to TextileArts.net and take a look around. I know that you'll find it to be interesting and helpful too. And, let me know what you think of it in the comments, or if you have a great textile and/or fiber arts resource site, please list that in the comments as well. I'd love to know my blog reader's recommendations!


**The images are from TextileArts.net.