{"id":74941,"date":"2014-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhgshop.it\/felt-but-what-is-it\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:00:00","slug":"felt-but-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/en\/felt-but-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Felt: but what is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is felt?<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Most of you will probably think I&#8217;m crazy and you&#8217;ll ask yourselves why on earth did I get this idea in my head today to explain to you of all people who <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">know and love felt so much<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, what it is.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I haven&#8217;t gone crazy and I think it really is necessary, because <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">an ever-growing number of people are fascinated by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/item-felt-2mm-thermoformable-wool-by-the-meter_0_0_4_7_19.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">felt<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> (both the artisanal and the industrial product) and they contact us, asking us an impressive variety of questions.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I often realize that many questions and doubts arrise from a total lack of basic knowledge and so I hope that this post can fill in the gaps. I will be brief, I swear. I will explain only a few basic principles.<\/span><br><\/p><br><br><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Felting<\/h3><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The ability to felt<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> is one of the most important characteristics of animal wool and has been well known since ancient times (some scholars even date the first appearance of objects made with felt around 5.800\/5.700 B.C. in Central Asia).<\/span><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The felting of wool fibers<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, both those created with artisanal techniques as well as industrial ones, takes place following a mechanical action of compression combined with head and humidity or through pricking with needles.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In both cases, <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">what allows the felting to happen is the structure of the fiber<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> and its flaky surface (visible under a microscope) which during the fulling process (which is the process of felting) rub against each other and they &#8220;hook&#8221; securely together, giving life to a textile surface.<\/span><\/p><br><br><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Felt and boiled wool fabric<\/h3><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">One of the most common misunderstandings<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> is that felt and boiled wool are more or less the same thing. I may be a bit harsh but, please&#8230; ENOUGH!!! They are two products very different in structure.<\/span><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/item-felt-3mm-thermoformable-wool-by-the-meter_0_0_4_49_19.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Felt<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> is not a fabric in that it does not have a warp and a weft, rather it <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">is a &#8220;non-fabric fabric&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> created by directly working with the fibers.<\/span><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Boiled wool is<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> a fabric that is indeed created thanks to a fulling process just like felt, but the structure of the material on which this process is carried out is a knit (therefore made with yarn).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I know that for most people this information is too technical and boring but I believe that it is important to have a minimum of knowledge that will help you to choose the best materials suited to your specific creations.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Come on, allow me to give you just a little bit of information!<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I one of our next posts perhaps you will have to put up with the explanation of carded wool and combed wool&#8230;NO, they are not the same thing and NO, there is no such thing as combed carded wool&#8230;it&#8217;s either carded or combed!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">If you liked this article maybe you would also enjoy <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/blog\/article-create-perfect-nuno-felting_335.php\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">How to create a perfect nuno felting.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p><br><br><br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is felt?Most of you will probably think I&#8217;m crazy and you&#8217;ll ask yourselves why on earth did I get this idea in my head today to explain to you of all people who know and love felt so much, what it is.I haven&#8217;t gone crazy and I think it really i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":28261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8943,8935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhg-materials-sew","category-sew"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Felt: but what is it? - DHG Shop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"felt ? 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