This is felt wool produce from Merino Industry, made with
natural fibers and sustainable materials. All products are manufactured using
high quality wool and fur exported from New Zealand and Australia. Each piece
of art made with love and care using centuries old craft-woman-ship and has been
passed down from generations and reflects the local style, customs and
traditions of indigenous artisans. Merino industry is under guidance of fair
trade and work closely with the artisans and ensures fair wage for its workers
in clean, safe and comfortable environment.
Felt is a fabric, which is unwoven and gets its property due
to entanglement of fibers with each other. Felt formed by applying heat with
moisture, and then pressure on wool or fur. Heat and moisture applied to
fibers, then outer scales come out and results fine entanglement as soap or an
alkaline environment creates. The protein content within them helps form a good
bonding. Stronger entanglement enhanced with pressure that transforms into a
fine fabric in form of felt.
Merino Industry thrives on delivering high quality customized products to our customers. With 12 years of existence, Merino Industry is a leading felt manufacturer in Nepal. Merino industry exports its products all over the world to places like Australia, the United States, Europe, Japan and many other countries. Merino Industry is committed to pollution free environment. Our products are fully environment friendly, as no artificial colors and dyes are used in the product.
FAQ:
What is Felt and Felt Bag?
Felt is a mass of matted raw lamb's wool. Felt is Imported from New Zealand, this raw felt wool is first carded and then dyed into different colors as desired in different forms for the final product. The type of dye usually used is Swiss dye.
Felt products are purely made by shaping the felt raw wool with soap and water and human hand pressure, no chemicals are used during this process. Thus shaped felt product is dried under the sun. Due to felt unique manufacturing process, any desired shape can be created.
As the felt products are relatively simple to make, lot of under privileged women have become involved in this industry. This in turn has helped in improving their living standard and empowered them.
Upon completion of the coloring process of the felt our skilled workers (mostly women); start compressing the raw material by hand with washing soap and hot water. After continuous hardworking on compressing; the wool(felt) will formed into patches that can be sewn together or made directly into bags, hats and shoes. Patterns can be added to the felt at this stage by rubbing different colored wool into the base sheet with soap and hot water and integrating the fibers of the two to produce the pattern.
Very fine and attractive designs can be produced in felt as the workers pay great attention to detail and are highly skilled. When the felt product is formed and designed it must be sun dried. After drying felt, some extra work such as sewing or additional decorating is to be done. The product of felt is then finished and ready for sale.