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

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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

Contents 1 Merge Felting and Feltmaking into Felt 2 Merge with Baize? 3 Diagram Request 4 Questionable statements 5 Where can one obtain real felt? 6 Acrylic felt? 7 Machine washing

[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)

[edit] Diagram Request

The manufacturing section is confusing, and would benefit from both a rewrite and a diagram. PatrickFisher 14:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questionable statements

"Felt is comfy and it smells like roses, tulips, or daisies." Isn't "comfy" a subjective term? Nor have I ever encountered cloth felt that smells like roses, tulips or daisies - is this something fictional or is it the qualities of one scented brand's sortiment? I'm gonna remove it, but someone putting in a more informative and objective version if wanted is welcome. ZNull (talk) 10:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where can one obtain real felt?

I have an old physics text, that put felt at the top of the list in ability to absorb sound. The reason I ask may seem strange. Here in the USA, since at least the year 2000, covert ultrasound weapons have been used to target individuals, I know since I am one of the victims. I need to get real felt to test its shielding ability against these weapons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.163.55 (talk) 05:40, 8 August 2007

[edit] Acrylic felt?

The article introduction doesn't specify a fiber, then later wool is specified and the description refers to properties of animal fibers. I don't know enough about the topic to make a useful edit, but I know felt can be made with acrylic fiber as well. 129.63.223.28 (talk) 16:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Needle felts can be made with (nearly) all kinds of fibres, including mineral and polymer fibres. These felts represent the majority of the felts produced in industry, with polyester being by far the most used fibre material. I'll try to write a few things about this in the article (as soon as I find some time). --JogyB (talk) 14:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Machine washing

Therefore, woolen clothes should only be hand-washed or machine-washed in cold water. Except that superwash wool is becoming more and more common. Also this seems to imply (to me at least) that one should never machine wash woolen clothing, even if the goal might be to felt them. So I've removed the sentance. Loggie (talk) 19:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)