Woolly Bear

Personal Project - October 2024

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Puppetry demo

Puppetry demo

Process

He is just a simple little project I did in an afternoon - a woolly bear caterpillar who is also a bear! The body and legs are sculpted from polymer clay, and the fur was made out of yarn sewn through some buckram mesh to create wefts of fuzzy fur.

Handmade fur fabric made of yarn

Back of the wefts, using cross stitch fabric