Some pipe cleaner machines are actually converted chenille machines.
Some are made of other materials, such as chenille.
The letter patch is primarily constructed of chenille and felt materials.
Real chenille quilts are made using patches of chenille fabric in various patterns and colours, with or without ragging the seams.
Trucks delivered pattern-stamped sheets and dyed chenille yarns to families for tufting before returning to pay the tufters and collect the spreads for finishing.
Back then the yarn was actually made by weaving a leno fabric and then cutting the fabric into strips to make the chenille yarn.
Chenille will look different in one direction compared to another, as the fibres catch the light differently.
Chenille letters come in many different forms and shapes.
