Can I use a needle felting/punching machine to embellish ready-to-wear garments?
You could most certainly use a needle felting/punching machine to embellish ready to wear items. Denim is one of my favorite foundation materials. You can very easily punch roving and yarns into denim without any problems. If the roving/yarn is wool and you punch from both the right and the wrong side of the denim when punching, you will definitely have a design that will stand up to many washings. This is because wool is an animal fiber with scales on the fibers. When they are felted together with the needle felting machine, they become interlocked. That creates felt. When you wash it, the felt becomes “fulled” which means that is is actually locked together even tighter. So anything made with wool (roving or yarn) is going to stand up very well. You can also mix other fibers with wool and get very similar results. The wool basically traps the other fibers when it is felted and so it holds the other fibers on the foundation fabric. Even though wool is one of the easiest fibers to use
You could most certainly use a needle felting/punching machine to embellish ready to wear items. Denim is one of my favorite foundation materials. You can very easily punch roving and yarns into denim without any problems. If the roving/yarn is wool and you punch from both the right and the wrong side of the denim when punching, you will definitely have a design that will stand up to many washings. This is because wool is an animal fiber with scales on the fibers. When they are felted together with the needle felting machine, they become interlocked. That creates felt. When you wash it, the felt becomes “fulled” which means that is is actually locked together even tighter. So anything made with wool (roving or yarn) is going to stand up very well. You can also mix other fibers with wool and get very similar results. The wool basically traps the other fibers when it is felted and so it holds the other fibers on the foundation fabric. Even though wool is one of the easiest fibers to use
