What can replace felt?

Felt is a material that is often used in needlework. On the Internet you can find many master classes on making toys and jewelry using it. However, unlike cotton and knitwear, felt is a rare “guest” in home bins. Now imagine that at eight o’clock in the evening your son (or daughter) says: tomorrow you need to bring a craft to school, otherwise... Is this a familiar situation? The stores are already closed, there is nowhere to buy, all that remains is to find a suitable analogue.

What can replace felt? For small decorative details, you should pay attention to viscose, fleece or thin woolen fabric. To make a frame, a piece of leather, plastic or an old felt boot is suitable.

What can you use instead of felt?

Felt is an excellent raw material for creativity. Creative individuals can always find worthy use for it. In addition, it has a lot of advantages, for which it is chosen again and again.

Main features of the material

It can be classified as dense woolen fabric.Essentially it is felt, the thickness of which ranges from one to five millimeters. It is made from animal wool or down. For greater effect, manufacturers spray the raw materials with steam. In a hardware store, this fabric is already on the shelves in finished form. Cut into layers of a certain length and width, sometimes it is rolled into rolls. But there are also packages with a set of pieces of different colors.

The shade range of felt has a very wide range of colors, which is what they make from it. Dolls and animal figurines, jewelry and appliques, covers for notebooks and book bindings... The full list is limited only by imagination. In addition, the material:

• Excellent fastening with ordinary PVA glue;
• looks the same on the front and back sides;
• its edges do not crumble.

Craftswomen try to replace felt with another fabric for several reasons:

• this is quite an expensive pleasure;
• in many cities it is not available at all or is available, but in limited form and quantity;
• at some point it simply isn’t available.

By the way! In recent years, felt can often be found in special sets for children's creativity. A thick fabric is used for the base, and a thinner one is used for appliqués and small details.

Soft warm fabrics

This is a simple and affordable alternative to thin felt:

1) Viscose napkin for cleaning the house is similar to it both in appearance and in structure. Its main advantage is its affordable price; there are different colors. When making crafts, you need to take into account that when a napkin gets wet, it loses its original appearance and turns into shapeless matter. Suitable only for things that will not require washing or interaction with water in the future.

2) Fleece.This synthetic knitwear is somewhat reminiscent of felt and is also used in needlework. If necessary, it can be rolled in several layers. It should be borne in mind that it is soft in structure and is not suitable for products that must maintain a solid shape.

3) Wool is a fairly soft material, but if it is washed in very cold or hot water, it can become felted into a non-woven fabric, which is quite suitable for handmade items.

4) Drape is a dense fibrous material that is used not only for sewing coats, but also for making toys. There are a large number of types of drape, each of which is used in needlework.

Important! It is not necessary to buy all these materials. Surely there are old things of suitable quality in the closet that have lost their relevance. Give them a second chance.

Hard materials

If felt is used as the base of the product, designed to keep its shape well, find:

• a piece of plastic;
• button;
• thick cardboard covered with tape;
• foamiran (foam rubber used for needlework);
• thin foam covered with fabric;
• a piece of rough leather.

If you have a device for cutting hard materials, use felt - a dense fabric made of felted wool. Thin, it is almost identical in composition to felt and can be used equally with it.

Imagination helps out in the most difficult situations. If you set yourself a goal, you can find many more felt analogues. It’s enough to think carefully and look around: everything you need is probably somewhere nearby.