Stained Glass Nuno Felting

I had a chance to stop by my favorite live edge slab store, Kettle Moraine Hardwoods, and found a beautiful long slice of walnut as well as some circles of box elder that have really interesting reddish-hot pink rings (what I will do with these will be reserved for a future post).

As always, I started by sanding and putting multiple coats of polyurethane on the wood slab to bring out the movement of the wood and then sat and stared at it for a while trying to decide where inspiration would take me.

Long skinny live edge walnut slab

This piece had an interesting ring formation that reminded me of mandala drawings so I decided to do my own interpretation of a stained glass nuno felting technique with black outlines for the darker rings and lighter browns and golds for the lighter rings.

I completely forgot to take a picture of all of the outlining work that I did prior to putting on the wool background so I peeled off a layer to give you just get a peek at the middle, most intricate, part of the design.

Stained glass nuno felting technique using black wool strings to create intricate designs similar to stained glass

For the bark, I wanted to have a bit of texture, so I added in pieces of black tulle tp get almost a ruffled looked. Once it was felted, I added in some embroidery for even more depth.

Just need to mount it and frame it and will post final pictures.

Brown and gold stained glass nuno felting technique using black wool strings to create intricate designs similar to stained glass and tulle embedded along edges to create ruffled effect
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