Felted Fabrics

Types & Uses

 Group Members

•Qurat-ul-ain Arif

• Angelina Haroon
 FELTS
• Felt is a non-woven cloth that is
produced by matting, condensing
and pressing fibers.
• While some types of felt are very
soft, some are tough enough to form
construction materials.
• Felt can be of any color, and made
into any shape or size.
History of felting

• Felt is the oldest form of fabric

known to humankind. It predates
weaving and knitting
• In Turkey, the remains of felt have
been found dating back at least to
6,500 BC.
 Manufacturing
• Felting was originally based upon the
physical characteristics of the crimp
and scaly surface of wool fibers that
cause them to cling and intermesh
and allow them to be pressed into a
compact fabric
• Today, felt is made with or without
the admixture of another animal
fiber, vegetable fiber, or manmade
fiber
 Types of manufacturing
processes

Felt is made by two processes

• Wet felting or Pressure felting
• Punched needle felting
Wet felting
• The natural wool fiber is stimulated by
friction and lubricated by moisture
(usually soapy water), and the fibers move
at a 90 degree angle towards the friction
source and then away again, in effect
making little "tacking" stitches.
• This "wet" process utilizes the inherent
nature of wool and other animal hairs,
because the hairs have scales on them
which are directional.
Types of wet felting

• Artificial felts
• Valenki
• Nuno felts
Artificial felts

• It has a minimum of 30% of wool

fibers combined with other artificial
fibers . This is the minimum required
to hold a fabric together with the
fibers alone.
Nuno felts
• Nuno felting is a Japanese fabric felting
technique
• It melds loose fibre, usually wool, into a
sheer fabric such as silk gauze. This
creates a lightweight felt that can totally
cover the background fabric or be used as
a single decorative design.
• Other fabrics or open weaves can be used
as the felting background, resulting in a
wide range of textural effects and colours
Needle punched felts
• Felting is also done with special felting
needles, which grab individual fibers and
drag them against their neighbors, thereby
binding them. The barbs catch the scales
on the fiber and push them through the
layers of wool tangling them and binding
them together much like the wet felting
process. Fine details can be achieved
using this technique and it is popular for
3D felted work.
Felting needles
Types of needle punched
felts
• Jacquard felt
• Synthetic felts
• Coir felts
Jacquard felts

• Technique of production
By combing,overlapping,needling,the
felt is formed, and by using puncture
function of needle to achieve
thickness to enter the main thorn
machine,then cut automatically to
form a roll.
Jacquard felt
Coir felts

• Pads of curled brown coir fibre, made

by needle-felting are shaped and cut
to fill mattresses and for use in
erosion control on river banks and
hillsides.
Synthetic felts

• Wholly artificial felts are actually

needle-felts.
Uses of felts
Felt is used everywhere
• It is often used as a damper.
• Felt is used on professional or
tournament billiards table to cover
the slate surface.
• Many musical instruments use felt
• Fuzzy Felt is a simple fabric toy for
very young children
• Roofing felt
• Hats
• Carpets
Thank you