Making natural felt animals – Rotraud Reinhard

The book making natural felt animals by Rotraud Reinhard shows you how to create wonderful felted animals, perfect for Waldorf seasonal tables and the Waldorf classroom or home.

This beautiful crafting handbook guides you in creating delightful three-dimensional felt creatures from raw wool batting, using Rotraud Reinhard’s own unique ‘building-up’ method with easy, step-by-step instructions.

Felting with raw wool is a wonderfully natural and tactile craft. The magic of felt craft allows you to bring farmyard, countryside and forest animals to life for children! Whether you are making felted animals for studying nature and wildlife, play, storytelling or seasonal tableaux, this wonderful book includes a wide variety of characterful animal patterns, including cats, squirrels, tiny mice and majestic deer.

More than 25 different animals can be made with this book, often with several stances and sizes to choose from to fit different nature scenes and purposes. There are also lovely options for designing individual fur markings and details.

Suitable for all different levels, from helping children to create felt animals in Waldorf handcraft in schools to expert level, this book is sure to inspire you. It features many wonderful and imaginative photographs of the different felt creations in nature throughout.

Making natural felt animals by Rotraud Reinhard is published by Floris Books in English (2017). It has 60 pages and measures 22.9 x 21cm. It was translated by Anna Cardwell.

Contents:

1 paperback book in English, 172 pages.

About Rotraud Reinhard

Author Rotraud Reinhard was born in Germany and has been felting since 1989. She developed the technique that makes three-dimensional felting possible. She runs felting courses and gives lessons in Waldorf schools and kindergartens.

She is the author of several books on felting including A Felt Farm (Floris Books).