How to Repair Pool Felt at Home

Pool is a sport in which the table must be perfectly smooth. Pool cues can gouge holes or slits in the felt, making it unusable until fixed. You can pay several hundred dollars to have your pool table refelted, or you can do a quick fix on your own using a simple needle, thread and iron. Many people place glue underneath the tear to affix the felt to the table, but that can cause bumps or ridges. This can seriously change the trajectory of the pool balls, changing the game. The best way to repair tears in the felt is to sew it.

Curved needle
Thread
Scissors
Hot iron

Instructions

- 1
  Thread your curved needle and put a knot at one end of the thread. Using a curved needle is imperative to get a smooth stitch. It will come up from under the felt on its own.
- 2
  Start at one end of the tear in the felt and push the needle down through the felt on one side of the tear. Push the needle through up through the other side of the tear. Make sure to ply your needle about half an inch from the tear on either side.
- 3
  Pull the thread tight and make another stitch in the same way as above. Continue along the length of the tear, pulling the thread tight between each stitch.
- 4
  Knot the thread when you reach the end of the tear and trim off the excess thread from both ends.
- 5
  Rub a pool ball over the stitches to help smooth them and press them flat. Press hard against the pool table.
- 6
  Heat an iron and run it lightly over the stitches in the pool table felt. Roll a ball over the stitches and watch to see whether the ball veers off course when it goes over the stitches. If it does, iron it again. Continue this process until the stitches do not affect the ball's trajectory at all.

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