<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Felt is used for framing paintings . It is laid between the slip mount and picture as a protective measure to avoid damage from rubbing to the edge of the painting . This is commonly found as a preventive measure on paintings which have already been restored or professionally framed . It is widely used to protect paintings executed on various surfaces including canvas, wood panel and copper plate . </P> <P> A felt - covered board can be used in storytelling to small children . Small felt cutouts or figures of animals, people, or other objects will adhere to a felt board, and in the process of telling the story, the storyteller also acts it out on the board with the animals or people . Puppets can also be made with felt . Felt pressed dolls, such as Lenci dolls, were very popular in the nineteenth century and just after the first world war . </P> <P> German artist Josef Beuys, among others, used felt prominently in a number of works . </P>

Where has felt been used in the past