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    Felting of Wool

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    Felt is a non-woven fabric produced by matting, condensing, and pressing wool fibers from animals like sheep, alpaca, and llama. Over 8,000 years old, felt is made through the application of heat, pressure, and moisture to wool fibers, causing their scales to interlock. Historically, felt was used for clothing, armor, and shelter by groups like Siberian nomads, Roman soldiers, and Mongols. The felting process involves carding fibers to disentangle and mix them, producing a roving that is then fully felted through agitation in hot water to form a tightly woven material.

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    Felt is a non-woven fabric produced by matting, condensing, and pressing wool fibers from animals like sheep, alpaca, and llama. Over 8,000 years old, felt is made through the application of heat, pressure, and moisture to wool fibers, causing their scales to interlock. Historically, felt was used for clothing, armor, and shelter by groups like Siberian nomads, Roman soldiers, and Mongols. The felting process involves carding fibers to disentangle and mix them, producing a roving that is then fully felted through agitation in hot water to form a tightly woven material.

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    Felt is a non-woven fabric produced by matting, condensing, and pressing wool fibers from animals like sheep, alpaca, and llama. Over 8,000 years old, felt is made through the application of heat, pressure, and moisture to wool fibers, causing their scales to interlock. Historically, felt was used for clothing, armor, and shelter by groups like Siberian nomads, Roman soldiers, and Mongols. The felting process involves carding fibers to disentangle and mix them, producing a roving that is then fully felted through agitation in hot water to form a tightly woven material.

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    Felting of Wool

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    Felt is a non-woven fabric produced by matting, condensing, and pressing wool fibers from animals like sheep, alpaca, and llama. Over 8,000 years old, felt is made through the application of heat, pressure, and moisture to wool fibers, causing their scales to interlock. Historically, felt was used for clothing, armor, and shelter by groups like Siberian nomads, Roman soldiers, and Mongols. The felting process involves carding fibers to disentangle and mix them, producing a roving that is then fully felted through agitation in hot water to form a tightly woven material.

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    Felting

    What is Felt?

    Felt is a non-woven cloth produced by matting, condensing and pressing


    woollen fibers of wooly animals, including sheep, alpaca, llama, and
    sometimes angora goats & bunnies.
    Over 8,000 year old process, felting is one of the oldest ways of making
    fabric. Predating woven fabric, felt possesses all of the same properties of
    wool Its warm, waterproof, resilient, durable yet more dense, more
    compact and much more versatile. Its extremely adaptable and can be
    made almost entirely by hand.
    The three basic elements of felting are: HEAT, PRESSURE, MOISTURE!
    If domestic sheep were not shorn, their fleece would felt naturally.
    Many cultures have legends as to the origins of feltmaking. Most revolve
    around the story of men who, while on a journey, packed their sandals with
    wool to prevent blisters. At the end of their journey, the movement and

    Wool felts because the animal fibers have


    natural directional scales and kinks (like a lizard, or
    a pine cone) that bristle when water and friction
    are applied. The scales reach up to the source of
    friction at a 90 degree angle and then back again,
    which causes the fibers to stitch together.

    The earliest felt remains were found in frozen tombs of nomadic


    horsemen in the mountain of Siberia around 700 B.C. These tribes
    created clothing, saddles, and tents from felt, since it was strong
    and resistant to wet and snowy weather.
    Roman soldiers used felt pads as armored vests, felt tunics, felt
    boots, and feltsocks.
    By about 500 AD, the Vikings, further north, made felt blankets
    also. Armor was made fire retardant by dipping in vinegar.
    Mongols used felt for the walls of their houses, called yurts or
    gers. People also made felt rugs and blankets.

    CARDING is a process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes


    fibers to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for
    subsequent processing. This process involves small hand brushes,
    which comb the wool many times, by transferring the fibers back
    and forth. Carding machines are used in the industrial
    manufacturing process.
    ROVING refers to the shorn wool of the sheep after it is carded.

    FELTING refers to the process of utilizing animal fiber, by shaping


    it in some way, and through a process of very hot water and
    agitation, converting it into a tightly joined fabric.
    HALF FELT is a term referring to the stage of the felting process in
    which fibers are tangled together just before they harden and
    shrink.
    FULLING is to shrink and strengthen the fibers as a fabric.

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