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Loading...Pre-felt is an already partially felted wool base designed to make it easier and faster to create felt projects. Unlike staple carded wool, it has a compact but still workable structure, allowing precise shapes to be cut, decorations to be created, and layers to be overlaid before completing the felting. Because of its stability and lightness, pre-felt is especially popular for making decorative panels, accessories, three-dimensional elements, and water or needle felting work.
The combination of extra-fine merino wool and Mulberry silk gives the prefelt an especially fine quality, combining softness, strength and a natural surface sheen. The merino wool provides elasticity and ease of felting, while the silk helps make the material silkier to the touch and visually refined, adding lightness and a delicate sheen. This composition makes wool/silk prefelt ideal for projects where elegant surfaces, fine details and superior tactile feel are desired.
Availability and packaging.
1 m, 5 m and 20 m packs are available. Quantities within these packages are shipped in a single cut. The prefelt by the meter is shipped folded and bagged to optimize volume and save shipping costs. Creases due to this packaging are not a defect in the product and disappear during processing. Should you wish to receive the prefelt rolled on a cardboard core please write to info@dhgshop.it. We will be glad to find the best solution for your needs!
Please note: shipping in rolls may result in freight surcharges.
Prefelt of extra fine merino wool(19 microns) and mulberry silk.
Composition: 80% extra fine merino wool, 20% mulberry silk
Height: 120 cm - 47.2"
Weight: approx. 100 g/m - 3.5 oz/yd
Tolerances
Weight per m: +/- 5%
Thickness: +/- 3%
Merino wool is a natural fiber composed of keratin, an elastic and tough protein that gives the material softness, resilience, and excellent thermoregulatory and moisture-absorbing properties. The fineness of the fiber, measured in microns, directly affects the quality and feel: thinner wools result in softer and allow for more precise and uniform processing. When combined with Mulberry silk, the fiber gains additional lightness, brightness and a silkier hand, while maintaining the plushness and strength properties of wool. Both materials are of natural origin, renewable and biodegradable, making this composition a quality choice for projects that require technical performance and aesthetic elegance.
our extra fine merino wool tops come from selected South American farms particularly from countries such as Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, areas with a long tradition of sheep farming and high quality standards in textile fiber production. In these regions, the practice of mulesing is not widespread and, in fact, merino wool is naturally mulesing-free. This means that animals are raised according to methods that do not involve this intervention, thanks in part to local climatic and environmental conditions that reduce the risk of parasitic infestations responsible for its introduction in other areas of the world.
Mulberry silk in tops from China represents one of the highest quality standards in silk fibers. Obtained from long, uniform filaments produced by the silkworm reared on mulberry leaves, it is distinguished by its extraordinary natural luster, silky smooth hand, and high tensile strength.
Our merino wool is mulesing-free, meaning it comes from farms that do not practice mulesing, a surgical procedure used in some parts of the world to prevent parasitic infestations in sheep. The choice to use wool from supply chains that exclude this practice reflects our commitment to animal welfare and more responsible farm management.
The dyes used for our products meet the requirements of the OEKO-TEX standard, which guarantees the control and limitation of substances potentially harmful to human health and the environment.
Fiber dyeing is carried out in our dyehouse in Italy, in compliance with current European regulations on chemicals and environmental safety, including the REACH Regulation (EC No. 1907/2006), which governs the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemical substances.
Operating within the European Union also entails compliance with additional provisions on environmental protection and textile product safety, such as the CLP Regulation (EC No. 1272/2008), relating to the classification, labeling and packaging of substances and mixtures. This regulatory framework ensures that dyeing processes are conducted according to high standards of safety, traceability and environmental responsibility, offering a reliable product for both the end user and the environment.
Our prefelt is perfect forneedle felting and forwater felting.
Since colors may vary depending on your monitor or device settings, we recommend purchasing our Color Card to check the shades in person before placing your final order. Want to check the quality of the material? Choose our Sample Box.
CAUTION: All of our colors generally exhibit high lightfastness and wash fastness. However, fluorescent colors (80's collection), in addition to having a lower lightfastness, may also suffer significant color loss in the presence of alkaline or particularly aggressive soaps, as well as with prolonged processing or washing. This phenomenon can occur, to varying degrees, even with dark and particularly bright colors. For materials dyed with these shades, we always recommend that a preliminary processing and washing test be carried out on a small sample before making the final design. This precaution is essential, especially when dyed materials are combined with unbleached or light-colored fibers.
Finally, to best preserve the colors, it is recommended that artifacts not be dried in direct sunlight, but in a shady place.
