Felt produced without fulling from any fibres; a wadding-like fleece is pierced by many barbed needles arranged upright on a bar and the individual fibres are intertwined with each other to form a firm, hard sheet of varying thickness. Used for upholstery purposes, as an ironing press cover, as decorative felt, as an inlay in ready-made clothing and as a floor covering of resilient elasticity. In the two-fleece process, different coloured fleeces are drawn onto the surface of the floor covering by pattern-forming needles.
