Dated back to thousand years ago, our labouring people has begun to produce felted goods. According to Zhou Ji and Shuo Wen Jie Zi says,” Zhou made felt from fur and leather”. Till Han Dynasty, there was a furthur development in felt technique.In Han, Wang Zhaojun was married to the king of huns-Chan Yu, and she mentioned that “the huns’ tents were made of felt”. In Hu Jia 18 Claps which is composed by Cai Wenji of Eastern Han Dynasty, there is a sentence called “Take the felted fur as the clothes”.

After felting technique was flowed into the mainland, with the combination of the local embroidery technique, its application range was expanded furthur. As Guang Zhi says, Qiang girls use the felt to dress themselves at festivals.

In Tang and Five Dynasties, there were felt workshops in our country. The felt workshop in Yuan Dynasty is the largest one which has 20 thousands factories. The main felt goods at that time are velet felted wraps, lining tapestry, Mongolian Yurt, felted shoes and so on.

In both the feudal society and semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, it is such backward for the producing method, equippment and craft of felt. Before liberation, all of the domestic felt is imported from other countries.

After the establishment of new China, workers of felting industry reformed the craft and producing equippment, thus the output of felt products that used to rely on import were substantially raised, and the quality is steadily risen, and the catagory is growingly increased. With the rapid development of our wool textile industry and the deep research of wool fiber materials, felting industry was put forward.

After the reform and opening-up, we not only produce all the industrial felts but also relatively complex adavanced felts. The statistics show that China now can produce about three thousand kinds of felt products, which has made a certain contribution to the fields of aeraospace, national defence industry, engineering industry,  petrochemical industry, transportation, mechanical and electronics, pharmaceutical production, textile industry. With the progress of technology, China’s felt manufacturing industry will develop much faster during the process of building socialist marketing economy.