Angelina Fibre Family

We stock the biggest range of Angelina Fibres in all its forms - Angelina, Crystalina, Crimped Angelina and Fusible Film and also the DVD Simply Fused.

Simply Fused DVD by Sarah Lawrence - out now - details
New Fusible Film - here now! Find out more about the DVD here

Photographs just do not do justice to these amazing fibres. Even with the best efforts of our camera and your monitor, much of the magical properties of this material are lost.  You could put these words down to over-enthusiastic marketing hype, but this really is something to have to see to appreciate.

Angelina Family’ products come under various guises.

• Hot-Fix. These fibres and films fuse to themselves with the aid of heat and a little pressure (typically iron between two sheets of paper). In this category there are several types:
      Straight-cut Angelina. This is the 'standard' version, formed of fine hair-like fibres.
      Crimped Angelina. Finely cut, but with a wavy form. Gives slightly more glitz results
      Crystalina.  A broader cut with a saw-tooth edge. When fused into a sheet, gives much more brash glitz
      Fusible Film. 10cm (4") wide film from which the others are made. Reacts to heat in the same way, but gives
      another  result.
• Non-Bonding. These fibres do fuse, but do have many uses from blending with Hot-Fix versions (expands the colour palette) to use in spinning and (especially some of the brighter colours) in fly fishing.

See the difference

The amazing properties of these fibres result in an unbelievable ability to provide luminescent-iridescent highlights, colour-shifts and sparkles. The "Heat Bondable" forms allows radiantly coloured fibres to be heat bonded to each other creating a luminescent web of fibres, which further change in form and colour when the layers melt together. Penetrating light is reflected and refracted and partially absorbed producing an incredibly luminous effect. The non-bonding form does not heat bond, but can be incorporated (as can other fibres) between the heat bondable type, to increase the colour range.

To use is simplicity itself – just lay strands of the heat bondable fibre on a sheet of paper or baking parchment, combining the colours as desired. Sandwich the non-bondable Angelina, and any other fibres, leaves, feathers, threads etc. between the bondable types and cover with another sheet of paper, and iron. The bondable fibres only stick to each other, not to the background or other materials.