For more info and Patterns go to our Lopi page

 

Icelandic Sheep Pelts

Beautiful pelts that feel soft and look like fox. Many patterns available with the colors of black, white, and moorit.

 

Pelts

White, Black, Moorit or Grey

$120 + shipping

For more info go to the Pelts page

Sheep Note Cards

  

High quality single fold note card and envelop. Perfect for a short note to a friend. 
A great gift to a "Sheep or Fiber friend"

Five (5) Cards to a pack (all cards the same)
$5 plus postage

Needle Felting 
Art Techniques and Projects
by
Anne Einset Vickrey 
with Patricia Spark and Linda Van Alstyne

   

This is a wonderful new book on needle felting written by Anne Vickrey, (who authored the wonderful wet felting book The Art of Feltmaking), Pat Spark (felting Guru) and Linda Van Alstyne. Anne has produced a book that is well written and easy to understand. She introduces you to new techniques and further understanding of this art and craft.
 The books covers:
1) An introduction to needle and dry felting
2) Safety tips
3) Equipment and materials,
4) Flat felting techniques with 2 easy projects, a heart and a star.
5) Pictorial felting techniques with Pat Spark including needling onto a prefelted background, making prefelt, designing on the prefelt and wet felting the design.
6) Sculptural Needle felting techniques including making basic shapes. Projects include making a bear, building a face and then a sun face.
7) Needle Felting Techniques with Linda Van Alstyne includes needle felting a human figure, making the body, the hands and feet and a 3 dimension head.
8) Wet and dry felting techniques with the project of making a fairy doll. 
9) Making a Scandinavian elf with Pat Spark.
10) More projects to hone your skills: Shooting star, Puffin, swan, Fantasy flowers, Lamb, Monkey, Tiny animals, puppet theatre setting, and masks felted onto a background fabric.
11) Wool related vocabulary, sources of equipment and wool and a gallery of ideas.

$16.95 plus postage 
 

New Felting book!!
By Ayala Talpai
The Felting Needle from factory to fantasy
working wool without water & related matters
With 4 felting needles enclosed
 

Introducing the felting needle! ...a little tool adapted from industry for various hand felting and doll making procedures. This engaging book is written for a wide range of skills & ages and seasoned with asides from its author (a woman over 50). within you'll find instructions for set-up, for safety, for situations where only a felting needle can prevail, and a supply of the felting needles themselves.

Includes chapters on  info on the felting needle with safety tips, setting up, various techniques, "fiberge" egg, sheep clutching star, 3-D sculptured forms, heads bodies limbs, and a lot more. A good starter book.

This is a wonderful and clearly written book on using felting needles to make all kinds of fun things. Lots of fun.
You may order this book from us with or without your felting batt order
The price is $18.95 plus postage

By the same author:

NEW!!! The Felting Needle: Further Fantasies

96 pages of further advanced skills including washing wool, dying, basic maneuvers, flat and animal shapes, arms and legs,  traditional methods, washing machine techniques, bowls, foam cores, darn socks, ordering felting needles etc. No needles included. $18.95 plus shipping

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New!!! Making Faces by Patricia Sparks: Using wet and dry felting methods

Pat is one of the Guru's of felting. This new book contains info on felting needles types and uses, materials and equipment for outer layer wool, stuffing wool, dry felting wool, wet felting wool; Things you can do with the felting needle; making a ball, cone and hollow form; Making a face and it's parts including chin, nose, brows, nostrils, lips, cheeks, eyes, teeth, hair and ears; Special projects testing a fleece felting and fulling and much more! $26.00 plus shipping.

By the same author:

Fundamentals of Feltmaking by Pat Spark

An excellent serious book for wet felters. Includes info on Choosing the fiber; Supplies and Equipment, Preparing the fleece, Making a test sample, Shrinkage and weight calculations, Making flat felt, Making dimensional felt, Finishing felt. Methods for creative design, Avoiding common problems, sources and equipment and much more. $17.00 plus shipping

 

Icelandic Sheep Horns

Large ram horns are available. They are great for knife handles, guns, spoons, hair combs, hand spinners diz  and powder horns.

For more info go to the Horns page

 

Horns	Large full curl with skull (check for availability)
Horns	Large full curl  without skull
Horns	Medium 1/2 curl
Horns	Small 1/4 curl

Go to Horn Page for Horns that we have available

 

Place an order...
	BY MAIL:	Tongue River Farm    Susan Mongold Briggs   5000 CR 4910, Pomona MO 65789
	BY PHONE:	(417) 469-1151
	E-MAIL	trf@icelandicsheep.com
Or for more information, please send a large SASE with 2 stamps   for any of the following:
	1.  Our lamb list, which will be available in June. Bred ewe list in December
	2.  Fleece samples
	3.  Color genetics booklet  (explains the many colors and patterns of Icelandic Sheep)                 Check out the Genetics Page this is the same info in color.
	4.  Hand spinning instructions. Also on this web site in color Click here
	5.  Any further information or questions you might have! email us
If you would like to be added to our mailing list, just drop us a postcard or email us at trf@icelandicsheep.com  with your snail mail address. Be sure to let us know if you want to be on the sheep list or the fiber list.!!!

Tongue River Farm  Pomona, MO 65789   (417) 469-1151  trf@icelandicsheep.com

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