Earth Friendly Felting Mat 'Earth Mat'
Earth Friendly Felting Mat 'Earth Mat'
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Earth Friendly Felting Mat or as we call it EARTH MAT!
Finally a solution to a lightweight environmentally friendly felting mat made from wool.
We recommend using one Firm Base Felting Mat and one Soft Top Felting Mat together - this also gives you a £1 discount over buying each mat separately. The Earth Mat comes in many convenient sizes, each layer is 10mm thick:
- Small: 10 x 15cm (about A6)
- Medium: 15 x 20cm (about A5)
- Large: 29.7 x 21cm (A4)
- Extra Large: 42 x 29.7cm (A3)
- Special Edition: Large Square: (30 x 30cm)
- Special Edition: Extra Large Square (42.5 x 42.5cm)
The Soft Top Felting Mat is made from: 100% wool which makes it compostable when it wears out and needs replacing - the wool is dense wool so will last a long time particularly if you rotate the mat occasionally so you use different areas. The Firm Base Felting Mat is made from 70% wool and 30% man-made fibre but will last for a very long time and may not ever need replacing!
This way you save money and the planet. It doesn't get any better and you get a instruction sheet too. We have found that you can use the Earth Mat from both sides (firm and soft) depending on your project.
The great advantage of the Earth Mat is that it is durable unlike foam mats or similar and versatile in its use: flat needle felting, shaping, single needle use or multi-needle tools are all possible.
We have trialled the Earth Mat for some time now, in-house as well as with our customers, and the feedback is brilliant! It has become our best selling product. See the reviews below.
You may also be interested in our Rubber Brush or Silicone Brush for removing fluff from your Earth Mat. We also recommend to cover it with a felt sheet to minimise fibre contamination.
Also visit our Free Tutorial page for 'How to use our Earth Friendly Felting Mat instructions'
How to use the Earth Mat:
The Soft Top Felting Mat is where all the action takes place. This is the mat on where you felt whether it is a flat piece or a shape you are making; whether you are using fine, medium or coarse needles or any kind of multi-needle tool.
The Firm Base Felting Mat goes underneath the Soft Top Felting Mat as an extra buffer. You can also felt directly into the Firm Base however the use of needle sizes and tools is limited, and only fine and medium needles can penetrate the felt.
We recommend to use one Firm Base Felting Mat and one Soft Top Felting Mat together. However, you can also use several layers and we would love to see how you use yours! Please email us with photos and comments to info@themakerss.co.uk
Reviews:
"Work well with both single needle and multi needle tools. Used for a... 2D picture and there was no hollow made where working on which happens with foam mats. Don't break up leaving bits of foam in your creation, easier to clean."
- Donna S.
"I thought they were great, less weighty than a rice bag and more sturdy than the usual foam which is prone to breaking up."
- Anita G.
"The mat was a great surface to work on and much better environmentally... Fantastic solution, a lighter bag and a lighter conscience."
- Lesley R.
"I really loved the Earth Mats ...much easier to work with than the foam or rice mats... Nice and flat, no falling away at the edges, versatile, light, great workspace, durable, adaptable, eco friendly - can't think of any negatives at all!"
- Margaret M.
"Durable, eco-friendly and no annoying squeaking! Love it!"
- Emma J.
"Really good to use... Also easy to wipe off any wool left on the Mat"
- Penny H.
Visually Impaired?
Do you need digital versions of instructions so you can increase text size or use a screen reader? No problem, please email us at hello@themakerss.co.uk and a member of the team will send you the instructions digitally.
Let customers speak for us
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The owl is well made only small and hasn’t got a wide girth so, not the best for making big deep holes. It is sharp so that’s good. Remember this is for travel purposes so it certainly is useful and a lot better than making holes with your needles and useful for all the other naughty things we use Owl’s for. Picture with hand to give you a size reference.
Beautifully soft fibre, so easy so use for making my little mice!
Fastdelivery
Emailed to change delivery address. Was dealt with efficiently and package arrived at correct address quickly. The order is for a gift so i can't comment on product but based on information and ordering at the craft fayre and the service with delivery i would buy from this company again.
Every time I place an order I know it will be dealt with by professional, caring staff.
My orders have arrived quickly and the products are of high quality.
Thank you for being so efficient.
I received my box of wool yesterday. I’m so pleased with it and can’t wait to start using it.
Thank you xx
A box of feather-weight gorgeousness. Love the colours, just as shown on the website. The Blue Leicester locks are stunning.
Lovely item, promptly delivered.
Brilliant value. Love the texture
Bought these legs for my Needle felted chicks
Covered them with beige florist tape
They look great
I absolutely loved making this octopus kit. I had been looking for a while for an octopus kit but couldn't seem to find any - I then came across this one and couldn't resist! I had showed my dad needle felted octopus designs before (just by looking on the internet) but this was the one that he instantly thought looked great and I have absolutely no regrets.
I have never felt (touched) such luxurious wool - it is honestly so soft and lovely to use. I have tried quite a few kits now from other well-known brands though I am still learning but the wool has never felt this good - I realise now what a difference it can make. I didn't even realise that core wool could feel that soft - I want to get more (update: I have since bought the Lanolin Rich Core Wool from The Makerss because it is hard to go back to other types of core wool now lol - you should definitely try it! The Fox Red Variegated NZ Merino that comes with the kit is lovely too - I am now converted to carded wool now too as I don't think I'd tried it before [if I have, it certainly hasn't been anywhere near as nice as this] and from now on, it will be the main type I use, along with the Lanolin core). Honourable mention to the Luxury Red Pipe Cleaners which I used for the first time too - so fluffy!
Plus, in the YouTube video, Steffi recommends using a 38 twisted needle and that is soooo good for this project as it felts so nicely with the wool. Before now, I have mainly just stuck to triangle needles as I couldn't really tell much difference? But, let me tell you, the 38 twisted is a new fave now as it worked so nicely with this wool. Certain wools make certain needles shine (and vice versa) - that's one of the things I have learnt. Pure ASMR. I loved having the YouTube tutorial to go along with it because I am very much a visual learner and sometimes I can get a bit confused when just reading instructions (of needle felt kits in general)... it was my first proper make-a-long and it was so much fun! I didn't end up using the bit of dragon mix that was provided because I liked the octopus as it was (looking red all the way around) but I am excited to use it for something else.
Customer service has been super lovely too - I had actually contacted them about advice for a different project but they've been very supportive about the octopus too (I didn't ask for any advice regarding the octopus but I mentioned that I was completing it and they were rooting me on).
As an extra thing, I also got a piece of chocolate with the kit which was a nice surprise. I think I may have used a bit too much red at the beginning so I had to stretch that out a bit and the most difficult part for me was the webbing but I am so happy with how this octopus turned out. The effort was so worth it and I learnt a lot - this is my first completed project using armature too! It was a gift for my dad's birthday but I got the gift of making it, which was just as worthwhile.
P.S. My mum and little sister loved that the suckers were there when the octopus was turned over - they weren't expecting it and they thought it added so much :)
Great quality and very good price.
Very enjoyable. Good instructions very helpful to have the video too. Good quality fibre.
Thank you for sending me the wool. I use it for doll's hair. It is lovely, but although you quoted weight, because I still only understand pounds and ounces the amount was less than I thought it would be.
Bought large, medium and small earth mats so that I have sizes to match the project.
My original large one was bought 2016, still in reasonably good condition, little misshapen because I cut it in half. Hence the decision to buy more mats.
Thoroughly recommend these mats
I had the other eco Matt before which is more fibrous and found it released too many strands. This is fabulous. Works well. Soft and strong. Comfy to rest on. Solid and not shredding. Buy a size bigger than u think u need for practicality and comfort and your own progression to bigger projects.
I purchased the A3 size and it's a lovely surface to work on and great size too. Sarah and Sheena went out of their way to sort out the order. Postage was very quick as well. Very happy with all the products received.
Very pleased with my mat - I bought the top and bottom and they work well together.
Fibres from the wool do transfer to the mat as you are felting, so I’m using one side for light and the other for dark and have had no problems at all.
Would recommend.
I brought an A3 earth mat and cut it down to 8 smaller mats to use in my needle felting workshops. They work well on top of my small foam mats.