Can polyester be felted?

Felt can be made from Wool, Viscose, Polyester, Polypropylene, Recycled PET, Kevlar, Nylon or Cotton.

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MYTH&#;. Felt is used as a Noun that describes a fabric but is also derived from a Verb that describes a process. FELTING.

Only wool (mainly from sheep) can be felted.

To FELT is the description of a process of steaming, shrinking and mechanical action to naturally interlock fibres to produce a mat or pad of wool textile.

Other fibres can be blended with wool to change the final characteristics of the textile as long as the product can be &#;Felted&#;.

Any other process that produces a fabric using any of the above fibres (including wool) by any means other than Felting, Weaving or Stitching is classed as a non-woven.All Felts are the same

All Felts are the same.

MYTH&#;.. All felts are in some way different based upon factors such as

1. Type of wool used in manufacture
2. Type of machinery used
3. Acidity or alkalinity of local water sources
4. Naturally or artificial drying techniques
5. Manufactured in Europe or Asia
6. Volume of blended fibres or fillers used in manufacture.

Synthetic fibres off the same characteristics as wool

MYTH&#;

Synthetic non-woven fabrics have their place in industry. They make excellent filtration mediums; they can be dyed to brilliant colour ranges. They can exhibit excellent thermal and acoustic insulation, and in some cases can be a lower cost alternative to a wool felt at a similar thickness.

However&#;.

They cannot hold and transfer oils and liquids as efficiently as wool felt.

They do not cut as cleanly as a wool felt as they tend to fray or split.

Many rely on oil and petrochemicals for their manufacture

They tend to melt at elevated temperatures and the resultant molten mass can ignite

They can be difficult to recycle

Wool Felt is very expensive

TRUE&#; in some respects.

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But&#;.How many fabrics can you buy in the world that can come as thick as 1&#; (2.5cms). Not many I would imagine, unless you want to buy wool felt; and some wool felt can be made up to 4&#; thick (10cms).

On average a square metre of wool felt at 2.5cms thick will contain approximately 2 Australian sheep fleeces (a fleece in Australia weighs approx. 4.5 kilos). That&#;s an awful lot of wool to process and felt together just to manufacture 1 square metre of felt.

It can take weeks to blend, process and dry a piece of wool felt effectively and so the ultimate cost is directly related to the wool cost and the manufacturing time.

But in other ways it&#;s a

MYTH

The majority of wool felt used in the world is manufactured in a thickness range between 1mm and 5mm. At these gauges wool felt is an extremely cost effective product given is particular benefits and diverse characteristics between different hardness&#;s.

1mm felt is manufactured on highly efficient machines that manufacture continuous rolls of product at high speed. Because of it relatively low thickness these felts can be dried very quickly and finished within days.

Even at 5mm thick the manufacturing process is so much quicker than at elevated thickness&#;s and the cost at this level is reflected in the demand.

I&#;m almost done the city quiet book page that I&#;ve been creating with my scraps of recycled polyester felt. But for my next quiet book page, I&#;ll be using beautiful wool blend felt provided by our new sponsor, American Felt and Craft (more on that here.) I&#;ve never worked with it before, and I&#;m really excited to try!

I thought it might be nice to compare the wool blend to some craft store felt made from recycled plastic bottles. This is the kind of felt I have used up until this point.

When you feel the two felts, they are about the same thickness, but you can tell right away the wool is much denser. The polyester definitely has a &#;right&#; and &#;wrong&#; side &#; the &#;wrong&#; side is super scratchy! The wool blend almost feels just as soft on the back as the front. It&#;s only a tiny bit rougher than the front.

In the strength department, the wool blend felt wins hands down. I pulled hard on the corners of each of the felt sheets. The polyester felt stretched and thinned. It got fuzzy and I probably could have ripped it if I kept at it. The wool barely stretched at all.

I tried to smooth and stretch both of the felts back into the original shapes. The wool blend obeyed, but the polyester got fuzzier and stayed mostly stretched.

The above photo also shows how thin the polyester felt is. You can see right through it. The wool is nice and dense, which makes all the colors very rich.

  
wool vs polyester

I&#;m really looking forward to trying it out! Have you worked with wool felt? What are your thoughts? I&#;m wonder if it will wear my scissors down fast than the acrylic and polyester felts do. I should finish the city page tomorrow, then I&#;ll get to move on to the wool camping page! (For progress photos of my pages, join the Facebook page or follow me on Instagram at username iolstephanie.)

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