If you decide to use this kind of padding, shop carefully! Some "felt"
padding these days has rough bits in it that would definitely stop a
pin. Another no-no would be the non-slip coating they sometimes spray
on the back. If you're going to use padding, be sure it's clean
fibers/felt, with no hard slubs.
Clay
On 8/16/2011 1:16 AM, robinl...@socal.rr.com wrote:
The rollers I've made for pillows used the fibrous-type carpet padding. That's
getting harder to find, more and more carpet stores sell only the foam rubber
type. The short ends should be cut at an angle (taper the material) so that
there are no ridges where the padding starts and stops. The rug padding is a
lot thicker than wool blankets, so it doesn't take as much tedious winding.
Then a relatively short strip of wool blanket over the padding and a cover.
The fibrous padding holds the pins well and is easily penetrated by them.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
robinl...@socal.rr.com
---- lacel...@frontier.com wrote:
There are ways to make long-lasting rollers, and ways that are shorter lived.
The best rollers, and long lasting, are made from wool fabric, rolled around a
supporting dowel. They need to be just deeper than the length of pins to be
used. Thick sections of cotton fabric would be hard to pin into.
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