In a needle board for needle-felting machines, consisting of a plate which is provided with bores and into which the needles are inserted with their rear end, the needle butts bent at right angles to the needle shank being located in grooves on the rear side of the plate in the layer consisting of elastic material, the grooves have a dovetailed cross-section, of which the clear gap width on the surface is smaller than the diameter of the needle butts.
