ornament a will be stopped at an appropriate location beneath the needle board 7 so that the ornamental pattern a may be supplemented by the addition of a further ornamental section or pattern b which may for example be of a blue color the needle board 7 will thus be equipped with needles arranged in a pattern which is designed to produce the ornamental pattern b adjoining the ornamental pattern a thus an overall pattern which is the combination of a and b will be effected the operation of the apparatus at the needling station defined by the needle board 7 is identical to that of the needling station defined by the needle board 6 thus blue staple fibers will be delivered through a feed duct 19 upstream of the needle board 7 and they will be distributed upon the web 3 by a distributor roller 22 following the needling operation whereby the ornamental pattern b is effected by the needle board 7 loose fibers will be alleviated by the roller or brush 23 and they will be withdrawn by suction through a duct 24 immediately downstream of the needle board 7 it will be apparent that a similar process may be performed at each of a plurality of serially arranged needling stations along the length of the apparatus for example one additional needling station is shown in fig1 which comprises a needle board 8 whose needles are arranged to produce the ornamental section labeled c in fig2 with the ornamental sections a and b already applied the needling station defined by the needle board 8 will supplement the ornamental pattern by the addition of the ornamental section c.