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Angelina fibres & film

angelina fibres, fused and manipulated into shapes
Lightening created with crystalina fibres under tulle
Fire scene using angelina fibres, secured with nylon organza & stitching

Angelina film is the raw material that all the fibres are cut from.  The very fine cut fibres are marketed as Angelina and the heavier coarser cut fibres and marketed as crimped angelina or crystalina.  Since all of these are cut from the same product, that all fuse to each other. 

Circular Knitting Machines

Antique circular knitting machine
First pair of socks on the new machine
Noro Silk Garden Sock Yarn
Noro Kureyon Sock Yarn
Noro Kureyon Sock Yarn

 I recently acquired an antique  circular sock knitting machine in the hopes of knitting socks. Yikes!  These are facinating machines, but not as simple as one may think. Originally developed late in the 1800's these machines were  used by women to knit socks for the war effort.  There were even yarn companies that purchased the finished socks and supplied the knitters with more yarn.  From what I have learned, it was not so easy to meet the "quality" required, and my own experience attests to the huge learning curve required.

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