Spunlace Nonwoven Fabrics

Here's the wiki link to non woven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonwovens

can you use felt? many fabric stores will be able to provide any quanitity you wish.

Thanks for the wiki link. I must apologize but it's a given that I'll peruse what they may have before I post on CR4.

What I most need is a company or university or research lab where I can work with someone who is making these materials. I want to learn how the process works. And, I would like to try to make such a product with a particular flame retardant material I have in fiber form.

Since I posted, I have learned that the terms "hydroentangled" or "hydroentanglement" are often used in reference to spunlace materials, too.

Hydroentanglement is a fancy word for felt making here's some info.

http://www.allfiberarts.com/library/aa00/aa110900.htm

traditionally wool is used, I'm not sure of the nature of your fibers, if they tangle easily, it will probably work.

Thank you for the link to this very informative and fun web site. I will try to do some of the things they mention for art and for industry.

The material I want to make in continuous lengths of at least 100 feet, must be very strong so that it can be fed through a machine for additional processing. I doubt I can make the material strong enough by just felting the product. That's why I am interested in the hydroentanglement.

Is there a firm that can do this work on small quantities?

Thanks

What kind of fiber do you like proces? fjrom@hotmail.com

I work for a Wet-wipe company and we use Spuntech and Kimberly-Clark as our main suppliers. Hope this helps.

Spunlace is merely fiber entanglement having staple fibers moving on an open screen conveyor belt, which are attacked by high pressure water nozzles. I hope this helps.