DeLeuze uses the concept of fabric and the weave as a way to explain the organizational properties of the smooth and striated. Deleuze states that "A fabric presents in principle a certain number of characteristics that permit us to define it as a striated space" He then identifies these different qualities as being: the vertical and horizontal, fixed and mobile, the delimited, and having a top or bottom.
These princples give us a mathematical model in which we can asses weather the particular fabric is either smooth or striated by nature of its organization. Further, Deleuze states that felt uses a different set of organizational principles, and is in a sense an anti-fabric. "In which there is no top or bottom, and is infinite in scale and complexity." This continuous entanglement of felts microfibers creates a smooth space that is not bound by princlples of sepratation and intertwining(as in other fabrics), but instead is based on constant variation of connectivity and topology.