Felted Soap

My latest project is Felted Soap.  It is soap that is covered with wool that has been felted and you end up with a wash cloth covering the soap which conserves the soap.  The wool will shrink as you use the soap.
I have used wool from sheep that are kept here at Markree,    I prepared the fleece and hand dyed the wool before carding it        With all that care the odd hay seed or bit of moss still seems to have crept in

For this I got some lovely organic May chang hand made Irish soap from Deirdre Marie O'Sullivan,  which she sells on Etsy   https://www.etsy.com/shop/DeirdreMPhotography