This is the way of the middle.
The perfect balance between the classic wood-suede mallet, and the big felt mallet. 
You get a balanced sound, rich in medium harmonics, mixed with a little bit of low and high harmonics.
 
Mallets with long handles and light heads are the easiest way to get full sound out of singing bowls. The yarn covered head plays minimizes what musicians call  “attack” so the sound plays more smoothly than tapping with a suede & wood mallet.  The long handle gives you better control over the volume and makes it easy to ring multiple bowls. Being small and light it will not push your bowl around like the larger felt Nepali mallets.