Warm, Soft Felt Isn’t Just for Slippers Anymore

Remember how much you loved your felt slippers? Now you can surround yourself with the same old-fashioned warmth and be part of one of the newest, most stylish home furnishings trends: felt.

According to the November/December issue of Metropolitan Home, felt is back in a whole new way. It has gone past handicraft and been reinvented as a rarefied material.

The magazine says felting today is an expensive technique in which the fibers of any material are woven, then matted into a felted finish.

Touches of felt are widely available in a new range of products, from furniture, floor cushions, carpets and clocks to felt-covered notebooks.

Prices range from $1,500 for Liora Manne’s Swirls rug for Lamontage to $335 for Donna Karan’s wool felt pillow.

Ross Menuez’s JB screen uses recycled industrial felt ($3,200). Claudy Jongstra’s organza-and-merino wool blanket for Not Tom, Dick and Harry is priced at $4,000.

Cube ottoman and floor cushions are priced from $850.