Making a Brown Scapular - needle felted 2D, wet felted to finish
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2018
- A Brown Scapular is a Catholic Sacramental, made of brown wool. In this video you will learn how to make one using wool batting, a needle felt needle, soap and water
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This is a lovely video thank you
THANK YOU!
Your work is beautiful. I also use felting on my hand made brown scapulars, however I have read in several places that the brown wool is supposed to be woven. I take woven brown wool and then I felt it onto the woven wool, and finally I usually embroidery on top of that for more detail. I know very little about felting, so your information about the soap and water is new to me, I'm going to try it. I wonder how it will interact with the woven, which is presumably pre-shrunk.
Also, I have read that the chord can be any material, so to be subtle and not draw attention to an unusual chord around my neck I am making a scapular with two plain silver necklaces. Thanks for your video
I am SO grateful for you!
Thank you for taking the time to share this because I know I was just searching this at the start of Lent (how to felt your own scapular) and nada! It was frustrating because it seemed so natural since felting seems to be “in” to have seen someone who has learned felting whom also happens to be Catholic and combine the two to make brown scapulars yet it was no where to be found.
I also have been looking at the concept of making detente’s from felt, and using embroidery also with both scapular making and detentes.
I know just enough and have just enough supplies to be dangerous is felting, hand embroidery, tatting, knitting and want to combine it all to make beautiful mini shrines, scapulars, detentes, etc
Well, they are a wonderful personal devotion and I think they make incredible gifts for folks who appreciate scapulars. The priest that blessed mine was amazed by it. I kind of think anybody with a Marian devotion would really love one. Happy felting....it doesn't take too long and yes, adding embroidery does really add that extra dimension. You might have to back the wool with a smooth cloth though. My mom's scapular is embroidered with gold thread and she reports the reverse side is a bit "scratchy"...but being the good Catholic that she is, she just offers it up!
Christi Dea I had a good giggle about the scratchy scapular and your Mom offering it up like a good Catholic!
Indeed, had I not already messed around with felting (wet and needle but especially wet) enough to know that this Marino wool isn’t “itchy” I’d have thought the scapulars would be itchy themselves much less gold floss/thread. But I am excited about the possibilities and if need be, I’ve had fairly good luck with wet felting in some silk so that would feel rather “divine” against the skin ;)
Perhaps I should make one from hair for times when I feel a bit more penitential lol
I’d love to see pics of any you’ve made.
I was as I said also considering making a detente as well, but think I’ll start with scapula size. I also wondered if you’ve seen or felted a medal in one?
Do you have to make them with classic images like from the Carmel ones, or can they be made like a Divine Mercy theme if you know ?
Technically, the scapular does not require any image at all. I have made one with different images of Mary and Jesus. I even made one with the Marian symbol and one with the cross and crown. Mary has also given white scapulars and grey scapulars over the years (to different orders). But the Carmelite's scapular must be brown, the Mercadian Order has a white scapular. I've never seen a medal felted in, but I think as long as it's made of wool you can do pretty much anything as the spirit moves ;)
The traditional Roman Catholic Church I go to has a gift shop and they sell brown scapular kits that make something like 20 scapulars. It’s nice to find this video on how make brown scapulars but I’m surprised there are extremely few videos on how to make them.
Hello! I was enrolled in the brotherhood of brown Karmel Scapular just yesterday. I'm very happy and proud.
A question. Where do you get natural wool? Is there a way to know that it's 100% wool -as it is supposed to be?
Any time you buy wool the seller should be able to tell you what the breed of the sheep is. Only a few breeds have colored fiber....meaning anything other than all white. Bergschaf wool comes in dark brown as does Cormo. The best place to buy wool really is probably Etsy. Many farmer sell their wool on that platform. Another great place to purchase wool is on Facebook believe it or not. If you don't mind having your wool drop shipped from Italy you can buy naturally brown (undyed) wool from DHG Dye Shop. They have a great deal and can ship world wide at fantastically cheap rates. The only thing I would avoid would be to purchase from Amazon. There is some crazy nasty "wool" being sold on there in felting kits, generally from China that feels a lot like polyester to me. A good rule of thumb though is just to steer clear of purchasing wool in which the seller does not know the breed or the micron level. The higher the micron the rougher it is, so like a 19 micron wool will probably be Merino and it's very soft, whereas a 30 micron wool is probably used for making commercial rugs.
Hehe I wonder why Mary likes wool so much???
According to many mystics of the church Mary was a fiber artist....primarily a weaver. We see evidence of this in the gospel accounts of Jesus' garment being woven in one piece, something that could only be done by a master weaver, which is why the Roman centurions wanted to cast lots for his undergarment rather than divide it.
Cool. and she did make his clothes for him.