Mossarti Hand Felted Hares

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Mossarti Hand Felted Hares

Adorable sculptured hares created using luxury wool fibres and silks then dressed in elegant, sometim

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Lampeter
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078808 16298

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‘Hello’ and welcome to Mossarti Hand Felted Hares

Mossarti started to evolve in 2013 after I had attended a City and Guilds course in Feltmaking at Westhope College in Shropshire. I then went on to take another City and Guilds course in creative textiles at Derby College where I was awarded a double distinction in July 2018.

I adore making these hares, I love that each one is different.I get excited with each new hare from initially deciding what colour they will be and choosing the fibres to create them. I work mainly with Merino and Alpaca wool, Teesdale wool locks, Mulberry silk and Habotai silk to create a luxurious, beautiful soft and tactile hare. Each hare takes between one and two days to complete and prices start at £158.00.

I lay the chosen fibres and wet felt them to create a flat piece of felt from which I later make arms and legs. This is the most physical part of the process as each piece needs rolling over 1000 times! Once air dried, I cut the arms and legs from the flat piece of felt which are then sewn and then filled with pure wool to create soft sculptured arms and legs.

The head and body are made using a different felting technique and this is made in 3D. Once dried this is filled with wool and facial features added by hand stitching. All the pieces are then sewn together with silk thread using hand stitch and my own designer buttons to achieve jointed arms and legs. I enjoy adding extra embellishments of beads or diamanté, smiling as they gradually come to life.

Designing their hand felted clothes is truly magical and exciting for me. Sometimes this is in the form of an initial sketch but generally it just happens and evolves. I am inspired by many things including the seasons, the weather, textures and how I am feeling.

What else do I do?

I like to dye my own fibres, silks, threads and vintage French linen using natural dyes. My kitchen often looks like a laboratory with mason jars filled with fibres and dye. I spin a little, love patchwork, hand embroidery and free machine embroidery. In the evenings when watching television I like to knit or crochet.

Where do I work from?

I’m very blessed to have a studio in my garden but I’m also known to hog the dining room table especially in winter.

What other work do I do?

I am an executive members of Black Shale which is a Cultural Education Partnership. I have worked for three years as a Creative Practitioner with Platform Thirty 1 cultivating social change through creativity. I am now lead artist delivering weekly art sessions to children in women’s refuges. I also sometimes work on other art projects in schools and local communities, and have run my own felt-making workshops.