Felt Bracelet Vinegar Rinse

Video Transcript

"OK, I've finished folding my piece, and you can see, even though I showed you the wrinkles that we had in that middle step; if you look at the piece, there's, you can kind of see barely see a little fold right there. But they really just smooth themselves into the bracelet. So, even though in the middle stage it might be kind of scary looking, it will all work itself out at the end, for the most part. And there are my little dots, from my little carved out sections. They don't look like I cut it; they just look like dots. So, it's nice and hard and smooth. I'm done with the felting process. Before I put it away to dry though, I want to give it a little quick soak in some vinegar water. I'm just going to use regular white vinegar and some water. And, what this does is, it neutralizes the alkaline Ph from the detergent or the soap that I used in the felting process. Wool likes a more acidic Ph and if it's left to alkaline it will only damage the wool over time and we want our wool pieces to last a long time. So, I'm going to soak this in the vinegar water for a few minutes, before I rinse it again and then I can set it aside to dry, and get ready to do any more finishing, if I want to do any more to it."