{"id":75082,"date":"2017-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhgshop.it\/whats-the-difference-among-boiled-wool-pannolenci-felt-and-prefelt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:41:05","slug":"whats-the-difference-among-boiled-wool-pannolenci-felt-and-prefelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/en\/whats-the-difference-among-boiled-wool-pannolenci-felt-and-prefelt\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference among: boiled wool, pannolenci, felt and prefelt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Many readers have asked us about the <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">difference between felt, prefelt, pannolenci (a kind of lightweight felt) and boiled wool. <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The readers\u2019 interest in this matter grew after we published the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/blog\/article-prefelt-maria-friese-experiments_191.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">article about prefelt by Maria Friese<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">So, I would like to shed some light on this topic. For many of you, this is going to be just a review of something you already know, but for those who have just entered this fascinating universe, it may be the first chance to learn about the differences between these materials.<\/span><\/p><br><br><h2 style=\"text-align: center; \">Boiled wool<\/h2><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lana-cotta.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><br><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">First of all, <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">boiled wool is a knitted fabric. <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Boiled wool<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">is made through a process called <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">fulling<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. The fabric is put into a fulling machine, which soaks the material in an alkaline-soapy solution, and then makes the fibers stick together by mechanically compressing them. Thanks to this process, the fabric becomes more resistant, more compact and fairly waterproof<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Felt<\/h2>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Felt is a non-woven fabric<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. That is, a textile whose structure is NOT characterized by a warp and a weft. It is not made through weaving. In making felt, <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">whether on an industrial level or by hand<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, we take advantage of a morphological peculiarity of wool: its <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">scaly surface<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. If processed with a specific procedure (which involves water, soap and a vigorous mechanical treatment) wool tends to \u201clock\u201d, to felt. That is because its superficial scales tend to open, and then latch into each others and close again.<\/span><br><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Felt can be <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">cut, sewn, glued just like any woven fabric. Actually, with handmade felt, you can even create 3D shapes and clothing without having to sew anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">If you want to learn more about <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">handmade felt<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, please take a look at the many <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0r8k-Fdypjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">DHG Tutorials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In the picture below, you can see how some <\/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 noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">industrial felt<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> was used to make a fruit bowl and a pen holder<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feltro-industriale.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Below, you can see some items made with handmade felt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feltro-a-mano.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><\/p><br><br><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pannolenci (lightweight felt)<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">If you browse forums and sites around the web, you\u2019ll read that Pannolenci is, like felt, a <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">non-woven fabric <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">made with carded wool fibers, only with a different thickness and weight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">When we came across that definition, we thought it was incomplete, misleading and far from scientific. Indeed, <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">a mere difference in thickness <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">is certainly not a technical feature which can be considered enough to distinguish one textile product from another. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">With the help of our colleagues at DHG, like modern Indiana Jones we tried to investigate the subject and we interviewed some experts in the field. Here is what we found out.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The word <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">pannolenci <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">was first used in Italian around 1920. That is when <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">a Turin company called Lenci <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">created a cloth (\u201cpanno\u201d in Italian) that was compact, soft and very, very thin, and did not fray when cut (as it had no warp or weft).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Considering the type of textile machinery in use at the time, we are inclined to think that the product was made with the same technology used for making the thicker varieties of felt that were already available on the market. This hypothesis is confirmed by the description of the productive process, according to which pannolenci was made by needle felting carded wool fibers, just like felt. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">So, technically, the pannolenci made this way was essentially felt, although a very thin kind. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Then <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">why call it pannolenci<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> rather than lightweight felt?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">We should ask those who invented it, but unfortunately that is not possible. We suppose that the idea was to create a sort of brand name connected to the company that made it, Lenci. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">For this reason, the name of the company was combined with the word <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">panno (cloth)<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, a very evocative word. Indeed, at that time the word <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">panno <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">indicated in Italian (as it still does) a specific kind of wool fabric that was fulled and felted to make it waterproof, and then gauzed to make one side <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">furry<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Even though pannolenci could look like a \u201cpanno\u201d (a fulled cloth), that is technically not quite right, because cloth is in fact a woven fabric, characterized by a plain weave<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Prefelt<\/h2><p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/prefeltro-lana-nuvola-DHG.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><br><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prefelt is a non-woven fabric<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. As the prefix <\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">pre- <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">suggests, it a partially felted product. The production process, whether on an industrial level or handmade, takes advantage of the scaly surface of the wool (just like it happens with felt). However, the process is stopped before the felting is complete.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p><h2 style=\"text-align: center; \">What is prefelt for, then?<\/h2><h2 style=\"text-align: center; \"> <\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/item-felt-2mm-thermoformable-wool-by-the-meter_0_0_4_7_19.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Industrial prefelt<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> is used in hand felting to speed up the process. Indeed, prefelt serves as a <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">base<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, which otherwise the felt artist would have to make entirely by hand. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In addition, the fact that it is only partially felted allows the fibers to latch onto each other just enough for the material to be easily cut and handled, almost as if it were a piece of fabric. This allows the artist to make clean <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">cut shapes and ornaments<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. Such ornaments can be used on their own or to decorate prefelt bases. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">A wonderful post with more information about this product is the one Andrea Noeske Porada kindly wrote for us, explaining <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/blog\/article-dhg-prefelt-love-at-first-sight_214.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">how to use prefelt<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Whether you use it as a base to work on, or to make ornaments, <\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">prefelt must always be <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">felted in the end. This will make it more resistant and, in case it is combined with textiles or decorations, will make them stick to the base. That is exactly the technique Maria Friese uses for her amazing works<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/maria-friese-feltro-ad-acqua.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/maria-friese-felt.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">So this it for this article about the differences between felt, prefelt, pannolenci and boiled wool. Before I leave you, I would like to recommend another post in addition to those I have already mentioned: the article by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/blog\/article-carded-wool-evas-10-tips-for-perfect-felt_229.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Eva Basile about boiled wool<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">, in which she explains all the tricks of the trade. Enjoy!<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br><\/span><\/p><br><br><br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers have asked us about the difference between felt, prefelt, pannolenci (a kind of lightweight felt) and boiled wool. 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