Felt vs. Velvet — What's the Difference?

Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp-based rayon.

Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word velvety means "smooth like velvet".

A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.

A closely woven fabric of silk, cotton, or nylon, that has a thick short pile on one side

A material resembling this fabric.

A soft fabric having a smooth, dense pile and a plain underside.

Something made of this fabric.

Something suggesting the smooth surface of velvet.

Made of, relating to, or resembling felt.

Smoothness; softness.

To make into felt.

The soft, furry covering on the developing antlers of deer.

To cover with felt.

The winnings of a gambler.

To press or mat (something) together.

A profit or gain beyond what is expected or due.

To become like felt; mat together.

New England See milkshake.

Past tense and past participle of feel.

A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.

Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

A hat made of felt.

A female chinchilla; a sow.

A felt-tip pen.

The drug dextromethorphan.

(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

Money acquired by gambling.

(transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

(cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

To cause a player to lose all their chips.

To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

Simple past tense and past participle of feel

To soften; to mitigate.

That has been experienced or perceived.

(of a cat's claws) to retract.

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.

Made of velvet.

A hat made of felt.

Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber.

(politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers

A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back, or with other soft fibers such as nylon, acetate, or rayon.

Mat together and make felt-like;

The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.

Cover with felt;

Something likened to velvet{1} in being soft or luxurious; as, a lawn of velvet.

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;

Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

To pain velvet.

To make like, or cover with, velvet.

A silky densely piled fabric with a plain back

Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste

Resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface