Great question, Visla, here is a bit is from Deezle's dictionary of Arts and Craps
Felt isn't so much a material as it is a conglomeration of threads held together by compression and prayer. Felting is the art of cutting bits of felt to create a design, then using long, skinny, pointy, dissection needles to repeatedly pierce through the flesh of the adjacent felts so that their essences bleed into each other, and commingle their already loosely aligned layers of threads into one single but thicker loosely aligned layer of threads, albeit of different surface colors. No sewing required (unless, say, to construct a 3-D object out of felted pieces), the process is simple: cut felt, arrange the pieces on a single piece of felt and/or each other, then stab the hell out of it until it cries for mercy or it's all one seriously wounded but single-layer piece.Where would we be without Deezle's? On a hopeful note, I hope to see my shrink before Tuesday's meeting.
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