Origins of Wool Felt

Wool felting is an ancient and time-honored fabric, the method of making which has been passed down since Roman times, and is a handcrafted technique that is a household name in Europe.

There are many legends about the origins of wool felting, one of the most interesting of which is about St. Clement, the patron saint of western shoe and hat merchants. Once St. Clement was running through the woods to escape his enemies, his feet began to heat up and ache, but he still had to try to get away from his enemies who were chasing him, so he found some wool in the woods and stopped to start collecting it, wrapping it around his feet to ease the pain, then putting his feet back into his shoes and continuing on his wild goose chase. When he finally reached safety, he took his aching feet out of his shoes and found that they had been transformed into a pair of felt shoes. Since then, wool felt has been widely used in religious ceremonies as a sacred object to ward off demons and bring good luck.

Later, people found that wool has non-woven, one-piece molding, warmth, waterproof, anti-flammability, color-fixing, heat insulation and other high-quality performance, began to use wool as a high-grade handmade arts and crafts production materials, so that the wool felt handicrafts on the hall of art.

Nowadays, wool felt handmade in Europe and the United States after centuries of prevalence, and in Japan, Taiwan and other places set off a for wool and crazy personality fashion wind, by a lot of fashion and handmade people warmly pursued. It can be said that people who have not played wool felt handmade has been regarded as away from the trend of.