Process

First cover the table you are going to use with waterproof covering and then a large towel.

On top of the towel put bubble wrap with the bubbles facing up.

Next choose the wool colours. I decided for one particular project to hand card the wool  – I pulled the merino fibres in various shades of blue and then pulled them together so that they blended.

The next stage is to lay out the merino fibres. There are two layers. One is the base colour and then the second layer is a variety of colours that are placed in the opposite direction.

If you choose to add in some strands of mulberry silk or some curly wool from sheep then you need to put a thin layer of merino wool over the top to ensure that they felt in.

Once you’re happy with what you’ve done the hard work starts !

First you sprinkle water that contains grated olive oil soap over the wrap. You place a layer of bubble wrap with the bubbles facing downwards and then some of the water and soap mixture on the top. Then you sit down, switch on some nice music and start to massage the wrap. You do this for at least an hour on a large wrap like the one I was making here.

Then comes rolling. Eight hundred rolls back and forth, back and forth. Eeeks!!

You roll it widthways in a bamboo blind then you roll back and forth a 100 times in each direction. Then you flip it over and roll it a 100 times in each direction.
Then you roll the wrap in a bamboo blind lengthways and …roll it 100 times in each direction on one side then flip it over and roll it 100 times in each direction. This is where you need someone to roll with you !

The next step is to bundle the wrap up and throw it – repeatedly – onto the table. This forces the fibres through to the other side of the fabric.

Then.. you rinse it in hot water, then cold water a few times and then rinse in cold water with vinegar and then a final cold rinse.

Et voilà – after 6 – 8 hours of work you have a wet nuno wrap.