White Extra Stiff Pipe Cleaners
White Extra Stiff Pipe Cleaners
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Extra stiff white pipe cleaners, 30cm long, ideal for wire armatures for needle felting. Available in packs of 25 or 100.
The 'fluff' on these is a short cotton, ideal for wrapping wool around for wire armatures. You will find it easier to create poseable needle felt sculptures with these pipe cleaners as they are much stronger than normal craft pipe cleaners.
**Please note: these pipe cleaners are stiffer than ordinary craft pipe clenaer, but if bent back and forth repeatedly (5-6 times) they may break. If you need to bend the pipe cleaner repeatedly, our 0.5mm cotton covered copper wire may be more suitable. This is is about the same stiffness but much more malleable.**
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How to make a wire armature:
A wire armature looks a bit like a very simple skeleton. Imagine the neck and spine of your creature (and tail if it has one), with simple legs attached. It can help to draw a profile view of the animal at the size you want to make it, then trace the line of the spine and legs onto the drawing. Make your wire armature to fit the lines you have drawn. You can fold a pipe cleaner in half and twist around your spine pipe cleaner to create 2 legs.
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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.
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from 1460 reviewsI love the colours and varieties of wool from the Makerss!
The teddy bear kit looks great, I haven’t started it yet but the instructions and the wool look great, the Earth pads are fabulous. Fast delivery, lovely seller, would highly recommend to beginner and experienced felters.
Beautiful mix of colours perfect for 2d felt picture, can visualise a vivid sunset over a beach scene. The Makerss are my go to when I need new supplies, great service.
I really like the product - wish it was available in larger amounts!! Seems out of stock now & I need more please restock soon
Just started needle felting landscapes. Top and bottom wool mats are just perfect!
Only wanted small amount of this colour so these batts are perfect.
Ordered as a gift for family member who has a talent for needlefelting. Can’t wait to see how this turns out
Lovely fast delivery.
Plus at last I have found a skin tone that is what is it called.
Very comfortable in the hand and lots of lovely colours to choose from. Could be useful to colour code needle to handle.
Lovely quality wool. Colours are bright and cheerful.
The items were well packed nd received quickly.
Excellent
I was a little nervous beforehand as I had never made a figurine before... but, I discovered how much I love figurine-making as a result! You don't know for sure until you try! :)
There are clear instructions but you also have the YouTube video to help (I'm a very visual learner so I enjoy a mix of watching the videos and using the instructions...)
This is also my first time using water soluble paper so that was a learning experience too.
Would definitely recommend! Such a cute fairy design! 🧚♀️🧡
P.S. I showed what the wings look like from both of the positions you can choose e.g. front-facing or placing them at the back :)
This is the second packet I have ordered for my needlefelted mice and rabbits. Easy to thread and look so realistic. Well worth using!
Delighted with my purchases and will definitely will be returning. Just what I needed for my current projects!
This design stood out to me as soon as I came across it! I think this was only the second time I had tried making a figure (especially the wire-wrapping for the arms and legs) so I was a bit nervous... but I'm very happy with how it turned out. Apart from the pearls, everything else (e.g. all wool/wire/pipe cleaners) is from The Makerss.
I made an Ariel-inspired Mermaid as a gift but used this pdf (and the 2-part YouTube video tutorials) to do most of it. Would definitely recommend! I also used 'Seashell Shimmer' and the extra strong white pipe cleaners for the clam shell (also used a different The Makerss tutorial for this which is on YouTube...)
Wool used:
- New Zealand Flesh Pink (skin colour)
- Pea Green batts (main long part of tail)
- Variegated Green batts (tail end and belt)
- Light Purple batts (shell top)
- Deep Red tops (hair)
- Variegated Turquoise batts (eyes)
- Red Rainbow Drops batts (mouth - but just used the red part rather than the little dots)
- I used basic core wool to start with then used a lanolin/basic core wool mix that is from the octopus kit as I had that in my stash (for underneath layers)
Such great materials to use and a really fun, exciting project! :)
So difficult to buy decent pipe cleaners these day, these fit the bill for what I need to use them for
My first order of 100 pipe cleaners at the beginning of the year were absolutely amazing, best ones I'd tried from anywhere and were really strong and pliable with zero breakage.
Of course as soon as I was running low I ordered again.
What a difference, so disappointed. These new ones literally snap even moving them let alone bending and I've had to give up using them and try to find an alternative.
I did contact customer service but was told that they are no different to what they usually supply. Not sure whether their supplier has changed the manufacturer but they are definitely not. I've had pieces underway that have snapped at the shoulder when I'm simply wrapping core around, lots of wastage.
I was recommending these to everyone but sadly can't do that anymore as nearly every one I've tried to use has broken.
Really sad and disappointed.
Hi Nicki, sorry to hear you have had an issue with this product, we are currently investigating this with the supplier. We will refund your pipe cleaners and send you an alternative wire with our compliments.
These pipecleaners are a perfect foundation for figures - they are strong enough to take handling as you wrap wool round them to make arms, legs and bodies; and the soft cotton covering holds the wool well so it doesn't unravel, while being a short enough pile length to be concealed quickly if making quite slender shapes. Essential!
I didn't realise that there was such a difference in pipe cleaners until I bought these. I'm pretty new to felting and I'd bought some bog standard ones from amazon but they were really flimsy and too fluffy so wrapping them for arms was a bit of a mess and the wire was so thin as to be useless.
Got these to try out and I absolutely will be sticking with them, making arms and legs wrapped with flesh tone is now a joy and the the finish is so much neater and tight as it sticks well.
I really can't recommend these enough, they have made such a difference in both how my creations look but also the strength due to really good wire.
Strong and very easy to work with for felting projects. Love the fact they are fluffy which means fluff sticks to them easily and they are strong so you can change their position