This is a dear friend’s heraldry.  Can you guess what he loves to do?  Now he can hang it on his tent to signal where he is camping and set his pavilion apart from the sea of white canvas at Pennsic.  He can say, ”Stop by my camp sometime.  Its the one with the felt banner with the scissors and needle in green and yellow.”

Again this is made of pre-felt.  With these flowers I found a pattern in a Dover book and copied it almost directly.  Like the Scythian saddle pad, I blew up the image to the right size and cut each shape out and used it for a template for each piece. 

Here’s how it looked in the middle of the felting process.

This is a copy of a Scythian saddle pad.  The original was from about 500 BC, and was a grave find in Siberia.

The design is done entirely of pre-felt.  The whole peice is wet felted.  There is no needle felting of any kind.  It measures about 60×70 centimeters.

Look under the “pages” tab for a more detailed explanation of how it was made.