What is felt roving?

Wool Felt is a non-woven textile. It originates as wool roving and by adding heat, moisture and agitation, the roving compacts and matts together tightly to form what we refer to as pure wool felt.

What is roving used for?

A roving is a long and narrow bundle of fiber. Rovings are produced during the process of making spun yarn from wool fleece, raw cotton, or other fibres. Their main use is as fibre prepared for spinning, but they may also be used for specialised kinds of knitting or other textile arts.

Is roving the same as wool?

Wool roving generally refers to wool fiber that has been processed but not yet spun into yarn. It is used on a spinning wheel to create yarn. Wool roving is sometimes called spinning fiber or top.

What’s the difference between batting and roving?

Roving – Fiber is carded, usually commercially, into a long continuous cord that is @ 2″-3″ thick. Batting (also known as batts or fleece) and roving have both been pulled through carding machines which comb and align the fibers to some degree.

What kind of roving do you use for felting?

Hundreds of colors of felting wool roving for wet, nuno, and needle felting. If you are felting designer scarves, making felted wool beads or figurines, wool wall hangings, or other crafting projects, enjoy the nicest qualities of wool. We carry four complete color lines of wool roving.

What kind of wool do you use for felting?

Four complete color lines of wool for felting: Merino, NZ Corriedale, Ecosoft wool roving and Homespun Romney carded wool. Also specialty roving: pencil roving, curly locks for beards and hair, metallic and core fibers. Competitive, low prices to fit everyone’s budget. Hundreds of colors of felting wool roving for wet, nuno, and needle felting.

What do you need to know about wet felting?

The very basic steps you use for the different wet felting methods are the same. Basically, the wool is arranged in perpendicular layers to make an interlocked piece of felt fabric. Then you apply water and soap and work it into the wool.

What do you need to know about resist felting?

Resist Felting uses a barrier of some sort to keep certain areas from bonding together. Many times this is a sheet of plastic. The Resist is placed between layers of wool which are then felted. When the Resist is removed, there will be two separate layers of felt.