Textiles

Hi brainstrust! I'm wondering if anyone has any experience or tips for painting a flocked or velvet type surface. I have a vintage timber display cabinet that I'd like to utalise in an artwork but the inside of the cabinet has a flocked/velvet/felt type coating on the back in a daggy bottle green colour. I can't remove the flocking as it's been applied to the backing board and then the remainder of the cabinet has been built around that. I was thinking of painting the flocking but not sure how to approach that... maybe just paint some acrylic directly on the surface and hope for the best? Or maybe I should spray the whole thing black - but I do like the timber colour. Hmm it's a bit of a tricky one. Any suggestions? The best way to describe the surface I'm working with is the think of a billiard table - it's that type of felt-ish surface.

Thanks