shield material 100 the shield material 100 may be used in its existing sheet form as a protective blanket or shield in operations such as welding high temperature manufacturing or the like the shield material 100 may also be formed into parts such as automotive hood liners engine compartment covers and the like as illustrated the planar shield material 100 generally contains heat and flame resistant fibers 101 and bulking fibers 102 the heat and flame resistant fibers 101 and the bulking fibers 102 are staple fibers that are combined to form the shield material 100 as used herein heat and flame resistant fibers shall mean fibers having an limiting oxygen index loi value of 20 95 or greater as determined by iso 4589 1 examples of heat and flame resistant fibers include the following fibers including oxidized polyacrylonitrile aramid or polyimid flame resistant treated fibers carbon fibers or the like bulking fibers are fibers that provide volume to the heat shield material examples of bulking fibers would include fibers with high denier per filament one denier per filament or larger high crimp fibers hollow fill fibers and the like in one embodiment the heat and flame resistant fibers 101 and the bulking fibers 102.