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Wikipedia:Requested pictures includes felt. I could provide a photo. --blades 01:40, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

Would you say that paper is technically at type of felt? It seems to fit the definition. ike9898 02:28, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

No, as felt is made with wool. Don't feel the need to base everything on how it is made. Classifying paper as felt would be silly, as it isn't felt. -anon

[edit] Merge Felting and Feltmaking into Felt

I don't think the two articles are distinct enough. They should be sections of this article (felt). Kslays 17:26, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I definitely agree with this. In fact, I'm not sure that feltmaking even has any (encyclopedic) content not contained here. --Deville (Talk) 01:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I concur. felting is short and you're going to end up reading felt anyway. Besides, it seems that the act of making felt should naturally fall under defining felt (which is convenient since felt does address making felt!). --sldownard 16:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I've done the merge. With no objections, I think this was a straightforward case. -dmmaus 00:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Great job, thanks. Kslays 19:18, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Something is wrong with the following:

"Highly sophisticated felted artifacts were found preserved in permafrost in a tomb in Siberia and dated to 600 AD. prevent blisters. At the end of their journey, the movement and sweat had turned the wool into felt socks."

Emphasis should be placed on the difference between fur felt and wool felt. The manufacturing processes are similar, but the treatment of the fibers at the beginning is quite different. Wool is not carrotted. Fur is brushed on the skin with carrott, and then the fur is cut off the skin. Paper is not felt: it doesn't fit the definition of the fibers twisting around themselves and shrinking. (airel@aol.com)

[edit] Merge with Baize?

Was proposed 2006-10-21 by anonymous user.
Disagree with merge. Felt is non-woven. Baize is woven but napped to imitate felt. It may be OK (if true) to write that Americans sometimes call baize "felt" (and link both ways) but I think it would be confusing to have them in the same article. Perhaps one should even write that "baize" is sometimes erroneously referred to as "felt" in the USA. --Boson 18:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Boson. Felt and (woven) cloth are opposites. D021317c 01:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC)