Thought I’d throw this one in. I’ve been working with some long (6-8”) natural alpaca hair given to me. Colours are brown, cream, and a greyish tone. It’s really quite easy to wrap only using a dozen hairs or less.
Well well 😊 thank you so much gang. It’s been a busy day keeping up with social media today lol I truly appreciate the support and encouragement I get. I don’t tie commercially so the reward is knowing people enjoy seeing what I come up with. I’ll definitely be tossing this into the deep come...
It opens up a ton of colour options and has no effect on the resin curing. The juicier the marker the better the mix. I’ve used everything from Sharpies to Copic markers. Paint pens coagulate and don’t cure. Cheers!!
This is a quick how to but if you search me on YouTube I have a couple more detailed videos. One important part of this is that you want to put a thin coat of clear resin on just the top of your thread body and then wrap the wire.
This allows the coloured resin segment application to be smooth...
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Main body is Textreme green PolyFloss but any green thread will be fine. Tail is also the PolyFloss with peacock midge flash, sm amber wire, burnt orange SLF spikey squirrel dubbing, rust brown deer hair. The resin segments are clear resin tinted with ink from a felt marker. If you’re...