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felting

felting

4.7
A process of pressing wool or other fibers together to make a dense cloth
  • noun
  • /ˈfɛltɪŋ/
translation icon : fieltrado
  • The felting workshop taught participants how to turn loose wool into beautiful handmade items.

Examples

  • Click here for more felting tips and techniques.

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  • Making the past present is for most people not a right or a ritual, but a deeply felt experience, much as Proust characterized it.

  • I plan on doing some needle felting for which I bought the supplies at Texere in Bradford, and I plan on working on some Christmassy things for which I bought the supplies at Samuel Taylor in Embsay.

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  • Her favorite hobby is felting, where she enjoys creating colorful designs from wool fibers.

  • In my art class, we learned about the felting process to make a warm and sturdy fabric.

Surface Forms

felting singular
feltings plural

Morphology

felting = felt (transparent) = felt + ing

This sense is the gerund/nominalization of the verb 'to felt' with the productive -ing suffix indicating the action or process, which is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Felting comes from the old German word felt, which named cloth made by matting and 'pressing' fibers together. So felting is the simple process of turning loose wool or other fibers into a thick, strong fabric.