Wednesday 11 November 2015

Shrewsbury Market Hall

Message from Sarah Hart, Shrewsbury Market PR.

                                                                             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celebrating 50 years: 1965 - 2015


November 2015

 

Press Release

 

Heidi creates felted sculptures inspired by nature

 

Shrewsbury market trader Heidi Butter has turned her love of animals and nature into mini sculptures made from the natural fleece of Shropshire sheep.

 

Foxes, badgers, sheep, hares, mice and robins have all been lovingly created as intricate needle felted sculptures 

 

Just one of her tiny figures can take up to a week or more to create and they have become something of a collector's item.

 

Heidi, who runs The Pampered Pineapple stall, in Shrewsbury Market Hall, taught herself the painstaking technique. She began making and selling the sculptures a few months ago and can often be seen busy at work on her stall.


"I've also been asked to lead workshops to teach others how to make them and this is something I'm planning to do in the New Year."

 

Each figure starts as a small ball of natural Shropshire fleece. The felt is made by stabbing into the fleece with a sharp barbed tool over and over. This knots and hardens the fibres so that they can then be gradually sculpted into form.

 

For further press information contact Heidi Butter on 07803 432991 or Sarah Hart on 0741 535 1318.


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 


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