Wool Felt manufacturing process:

Wool Felt manufacturing process:

Blending: Blending different types of fibers if necessary. One can mix wool of different kinds depending on the size of the strand or one can mix various natural and man-made fibers also. Blending can be manual or can be machine based, depending upon ones resources.

Carding Machine: Carding is used to orient the fibers in a roughly parallel status with each other, to maintain the uniformity of the felt. The carding machines have rotating cylinders covered with fine teeth to comb the fibers into thin layers. Which are then collected over and over on top of each other into a sliver beds which are rolled and kept aside. It’s actually the width of this carding machine which decides the width of the felt. Usually it varies from 60” – 100”.

• Plate Hardening: Process which converts the soft sliver beds into its next form with enhanced strength. The sliver beds are arranged over each other by spreading them horizontally and are wetted and pressed between steel plates which oscillates to help the fibers interlock and cling together. This is just the initial stage of felting.

•  Fulling : In fulling machine the felt undergoes through high pressure in the presence of heat and water. The density and thickness of the felt is controlled at this stage.

• Drying and trimming: After fulling the felt is dried under natural conditions and then the uneven sides of the felt are trimmed.

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