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🧵 A dense fabric 🧵 To cover with fabric 🧶 To mat fibers
to felt

to felt

1 7.2
To cover something with a soft cloth made by matting wool fibers
  • verb
  • /fɛlt/
translation icon : cubrir con fieltro
  • In her workshop, she often felts various shapes for unique home decorations.
  • felted wool

Examples

  • Some of the jackets have a drawstring hood and also have felted pockets.

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  • To create a soft and sturdy craft project, she chose to felt the exterior of the purse.

  • For the first pet bed, I used a felted bowl pattern and just made it bigger.

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  • I was making a small pillow with hand-felted wool for a friend and thought of making it into a heating pad.

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  • My friend Brenda is felting wool skirts.

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  • A superwash wool can be machine washed without shrinking or felting because the process used to treat the wool flattens out the wool's scales, keeping the wool from felting.

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  • I decided to felt the inside of the box to prevent damage during shipping.

Synonyms

to wooled
vsto felt
8.4

To cover something with wool to make it warm

uses a specific manufactured fabric mainly in manufacturing and crafts

Compounds

felt tip
2 3.0

A pen with a soft cloth tip used for drawing or coloring

felt hat
1 2.4

A hat made from soft wool with a crease in the top

felt-tip pen
1 2.1

A pen with a soft felt tip for writing or drawing

felt-tipped pen
1 3.0

A tool for writing or drawing with a soft tip that makes bold lines

black felt cup
  • UK
9.9

A small black, cup-shaped mushroom that grows on dead wood in damp forests

felt fern
  • UK
9.5

A green plant from East Asia with soft leaves shaped like tongues

felt fungus
  • US
9.9

A soft, felt-like white growth on twigs and branches, often on orange trees

How Covered

to felt
1 7.2
to pad
39 3.1
to line
206 5.1
to cover
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

felt infinitive
felt past
felt past participle
felting present participle
felts third person singular

Etymology

Felt as a verb comes from the same idea as the cloth: to 'cover with a mat' of pressed wool or similar material. So to felt something is to add or make a soft, matted layer on it, as in lining or finishing an item.