Felt

Felt coat (kosai) from Uruzgan, southern Afghanistan. 2010 Felt coat (kosai) from Uruzgan, southern Afghanistan. 2010 TRC collection.

Felt is a fabric formed by the matting together of fibres, generally sheep’s wool or wool and hair, under heat and pressure. This form of cloth is used for non-woven fabrics. A fabric with a woven structure under a felt-like surface is described as fulled.

Sources:

  • BURNHAM, Dorothy (1980). Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology, Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, p. 55.
  • COATSWORTH, Elizabeth (2012). 'Felt', in Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward (eds., 2012). Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles, c. 450-1450, Brill: Leiden, pp. 206-207.

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