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Needle Felted Bunch of Grapes

These grapes were sculpted with wool. The process is called needle felting and it involves stabbing the wool with a needle that has tiny barbs on its sides. This causes the wool fibers to interlock with each other. Each time the wool is pierced with the needle, the sculpture becomes more dense.

I begin my wool sculptures with a white core wool and concentrate on getting the shape right. Then I layer colored wool on top of that and needle felt it over the white. The grapes were each done individually and have the color variations found in real grapes that have degrees of ripeness within the bunch. The size is life size. The largest bunch measures 7 inches from the bottom grape to the end of the stem. The width at it's widest point is 3 1/2 inches. The on sale smaller bunch is 5 1/2 inches long and 3 inches wide. The leaf is flexible and can be moved around to get the best look.