Polyester & Cotton Wadding and Needle Felts

Polyester Wadding

Thermally bonded, flame retardant polyester wadding, manufactured in the traditional way to enhance the loft, cover and feel. Offering greater thickness than other suppliers, these waddings are used by discerning customers who value the quality of the finished article. This is not a mass market wadding; instead it is selected by both small and large customers where only the best is acceptable.

Quality

• Combustion Modified Solid Polyester, with 3 deniers blended together to maximise spring and softness.
• All waddings conform to BS5852.
• Full Loft
• Compressed and partially compressed
• Extra soft
• Extra stiffened
• Laminated
• Insulators

Specification

Cotton wadding manufactured traditionally by Cowens Ltd since 1901 in a variety of formats for diverse applications where padding, softness and retained shape are required in an economical format.

Cotton fibres are carded into a web before being bonded using a crosslinking resin skin which holds the material together while retaining the natural softness and thickness.

Manufactured to suit customer needs, it can be folded to give a resin face top and bottom (bookfold), rolled full width, or rolled full width double sided. Specific sized shapes can be cut from the wadding using a die press or sheet wadding made using a guillotine.

The wadding can be made from bleached fibres for bleached cotton wadding, unbleached fibres for grey cotton wadding, finest cotton combers for super grey wadding, or flame retardent fibres and resin for FR cotton wadding.

Applications as diverse as baby wraps (bleached wadding), shoulder pads and coffin lining (Grey), upholstery (FR) and french polishing (Super) as well as general padding, absorbing and insulating.

Quality

Needled pure silk fibre, in a polyester blend, produces a sumptuous soft felt for the ultimate in luxury fillings. A powerful marketing advantage in premium beds and upholstery, the felt is also a supremely comfortable material to lie on, keeping cool in summer but warm in winter.

Similarly Cowens Ltd’s pure needled wool felts are beautifully soft yet keep their shape and loft with a firm spring which does not flatten. Ultra clean wool is double carded to remove all the trash and short fibres, leaving a pale cream felt which has a multitude of applications as filling, lining or padding. Its naturally comfortable characteristics are well known, and at 500 gsm, will enable the wool mark to be used.

With a strength to enable robust furniture manufacturing practices to be employed, and a good thickness which is easy to work with, this premium felt is a pleasure to work with.

Quality - Silk

• Needled Silk and polyester blend with 14gsm pp backing
• Heavy backing optional

Quality - Wool

• Needled Wool with 14gsm pp backing
• Heavy backing optional

Specification

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