Felt

In Mongolia, traditional jir tents use layers of felt made from pressed sheep's wool to insulate the floor and walls.

Thick felt blankets keep the people inside warm during winters that can drop well below minus 30 degrees Celsius.

Felt works as insulation because its tangled fibres create countless tiny air pockets.

The natural lanolin in wool also gives... felt a degree of water resistance, which helps it stay effective even in damp conditions.

In ancient Rome, wealthy citizens rested on mattresses stuffed with wool or feathers and covered themselves with woolen blankets.

And now, let's talk about felting.

Felting is the process of consolidating fibrous materials using heat, moisture, and mechanical action, to create interlocking or matted material called felt.

Felt refers to any fabric or fiber structure made out of interlocking wool, fur, or hair.

You do not need glue to make felt.

The fibers stick to each other because of their particular structure, which we'll talk more about in a minute.

The barbs on the ends of the needles cause the scales on the fibers to move and then lock with other scales.

Needle punch machines are used to make thick, lofty felt, like the kind used in moving blankets and insulation.

Felting done by hand is a very old craft.

A woman's slipper.

Felt.

The color gone out of it.

The toe still holding the shape of somebody's foot.

Once it's become threaded, obviously you can do anything further on in the process than threading.

What's the case of begadim here, of clothes here? It's some sort of felt.

Felt's like a It doesn't require any threading or turning into, yeah, I'm just missing the word, but thread, right? Felt is just like a slab of material.

So even that, where there was no, wasn't threaded, and you might say it's not okay, no, it's okay.

If somebody is suspicious, suspected of sowing produce in the Shemitah year or doing business with the growths that grow in Shemitah, you can't purchase cotton flax from him and even crushed cotton flax you can't purchase from him because it's not such a big effort to go and crush it.

Right? Because you can see if it's from a male or a female.

Um, we said, which was whitened, but dirty can be bought and you can buy felt from him.

Right? Felt is like, when you press the wall together again, it takes a lot of effort.

So he's not going to do that.

A.

Let me ask you this.

Felt or straw?

Felt.

Okay.

Felt.

Straw.

Straw.

So my bigodim namte.

What clothing are we talking about? Felt.

Felt, I looked up a little bit how to make felt.

You don't spin felt is the point, right? To make fabric out of felt, it doesn't require spinning.

So if we're saying tovi namte, or begadim, tavvi would be threads that you spin into threads.