Felt-making has a long history in Turkey going back to nomadic times in Central Asia before the Turks settled permanently in Anatolia. For centuries, master craftsmen have practiced their skills, passing them on to younger generations and ensuring that the chain of traditional felt-making remained steadfast and unbroken. Due to industrialization, factory-made felt has affected the making of handmade felt profound, causing a steep decline, as master craftsmen shut down their ateliers in the face of overwhelming competition from industrialized mass-production. Nevertheless, despite this deterioration, a few master craftsmen have continued to make felt by hand. This paper documents the work of one of them, namely, Idris Coban from Balikesir, an inland city of over 300,000 inhabitants, and the capital of the eponymous province.