Roving "Wraps" and other funky style questions

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Roving "Wraps" and other funky style questions

Post by SyNNy+SuKKupyre » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:33 pm

I was wondering if anyone else had tried this and what the result was....

I am making my first ever roving wool dreads and I have been trying to get different colour combos.
I am going to try the candycane method in a bit but was wondering has anyone ever wrapped a smaller piece of another colour within a bigger?
If that makes sense.
I tried it yesterday and twisted and palm rolled it heavily then hung it to dry.
I have to re felt them today and dive back into my huge pile of wool but does this work?
Or will I lose the other colour when I re soak and roll them?
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Can you curl or make them wavy?
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Any tips for funkier styled roving wool dreads?

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My "wrap"
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My other dreads so far
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Post by Ice_Pick_Abortions » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:45 pm

this sounds a bit like Jane Doe's alternative felting method where colours are layered on each other for mixing colours and transitions instead of dying. there's a tut in the tutorials section
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Post by SyNNy+SuKKupyre » Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:50 am

I have seen that but I was wondering if there was another way without using small pieces ^_^
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Post by VixenSingsBlack » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:10 am

I did a few experiments and explained them on this thread. I think you're walking down the same road I was.

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Post by SyNNy+SuKKupyre » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:12 am

Thank you so much Vixen ^___^
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Post by Jane Doe » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:46 am

If you like that look, you can buy roving already "colour streaked".
I mainly use it in my spinning, but it'll give you the effect you're after.

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Post by SyNNy+SuKKupyre » Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:22 am

The stuff I am using right now is kinda like that.
I bought a braid of green and the other was a mix of blue white and purple but I tried my best to seperate colours.
The store I went to didn't have alot od selection at the time but I am hoping to find some nice black and white mixed stuff.
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Post by Tessie » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:00 am

What about roving wrapped dreads ( kinnda like LS7 at synthetics)? or candycanes? can you do all that with roving too?

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Post by SyNNy+SuKKupyre » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:02 am

Tessie wrote:What about roving wrapped dreads ( kinnda like LS7 at synthetics)? or candycanes? can you do all that with roving too?

The ladies are always coming up with cool new rovins.
Candy canes have tuts in the tut section, and spiderweb roving is kinda like LS7, nor at least as close as I have seen.
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Post by Stilldawn » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:56 am

Not sure if this is anything like what you mean but the dread in here that goes from black to red....the red is wrapped around and then felted onto the black dread with a bit of needle felting to reinforce, and the candy canes are wrapped around then needle felted.... You can wrap it in color blocking or really however you want, cool thing about wool is if you can do alot with it.

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here is a poor example of the other method of tearing it all apart and then rolling it before felting...during...
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after..
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and a single ender I made wavy and let dry...
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then an example of different things, twist, polka dots, braided, color blocking, the afore mention tear apart method, and more color blocking. Not anytime you wrap the dread with more wool that section will get thicker.
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Hope something here inspires you to play around. Don't discount the fun of needle felting designs. Scroll through this topic for examples of that.....http://hairextensionsforum.com/viewtopi ... nspiration

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Post by Tessie » Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:23 pm

Great, thanks! :)

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Post by miasmahair » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:21 pm

Muhaha, this is exactly what I'm going to be posting a tut for... Sometime soon. Hopefully. I'm just about to move house, BUT if you twist the dread your wrapping one way really tightly, then wrap in the opposite direction and twist back in that direction it holds way better. And yes, needle-felting it lightly together helps too!

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Post by nothingwhatsoever » Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:56 pm

yup.
i do it lots, in many ways, parexamples --

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and these without the magic of unicorn twist either, hellz, wool is awesome stuff aint it!
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Post by SyNNy+SuKKupyre » Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:20 pm

nothingwhatsoever wrote:yup.
i do it lots, in many ways, parexamples --

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and these without the magic of unicorn twist either, hellz, wool is awesome stuff aint it!
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I know this isn't a show off thread but those are SO lovely <3
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