The wool is pulled into slivers long strips of fibers loosely pulled together and running in the same direction.
What is carding wool rugs.
It breaks up locks and unorganised clumps of fibre and then aligns the individual fibres to be parallel with each other.
This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered with card clothing.
Carding pulls the fibers straight while removing any remaining dirt or vegetable matter.
Wool is one of the most durable materials for carpets and wool rugs go back to ancient times.
Please refer to the care tab for more information about looking after your rug.
The typical carding cloth options for drum carders are.
And again once completely dry to encourage original fluffy appearance.
Carding of wool can either be done in the grease or not depending on the type of machine and on the spinner s preference.
Wool rugs are one of the best quality fabric floor coverings available.
Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing.
Wool is fitted onto the comb s teeth and torn by hands into two parts then the two bunches of wool were put together again and the operation is repeated until all the fibers in a bunch align in the same direction more or less.
Comb for wool carding is carried out as follows.
Tpi stands for teeth per inch and it determines how many points you d find on one square inch of carding cloth.
Drop spindle and spinning wheel.
There are many different types of wool and.
They are much in demand because of their value style versatility beauty and long life.
The medium carding cloth is excellent for the first carding of most mohair.
72 tpi is a good all around carding cloth if you re used to working with wool in varying levels of coarseness.
After washing or spot cleaning brush your rug gently with a carding brush while still damp.
It can also be used for blending mohair with other fibers but is not suitable for 100 baby kid and other very fine delicate specialty fibers which are best carded entirely on the fur or fine drum or spun from picked locks.
56 tpi coarse designed for producing batts and blending fibers.
Twisting the wool fibers so that they form a single strand of yarn.
At sheep to shawl we demonstrate two methods.
Carding cloth is identified by its density of the pointed wire matrix measured as teeth per inch or tpi.
54 tpi is the coarsest they come and you use this for carding coarse wool.
If after carding the wool is under 3 inches almost 8 centimeters it is twisted into rovings rope like strands that can be spun for knitting.
The carding brush is designed specifically for brushing sheepskin.
Carding produces what s called a rolag or small roll that is ready for spinning.