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Tag Archives: carding
From start to finish: Part 5 – Carding
Carding is the process of organizing the fibers so that they are all pointing one direction. It’s essentially a really complicated way to brush hair that is no longer attached to an animal. There are three ways to do it: … Continue reading
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Tagged alpaca fiber, carders, carding, drum carder, drum carders, fiber processing, hand carders, rolag, roving, woolen yarns, worsted yarn
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To the mill!
Dad and Mom toured one of our local fiber mills this week. We made a family pact that if our next shearing day rolled around and we still hadn’t finished with all the fleeces, we’d take them to the mill … Continue reading
Random fiber word of the day: batt
If you quilt, or play baseball, you may have an idea of what a batt/bat is. In baseball, it is long piece of wood used to bean people who make you angry. In quilting, batting is the layer of filling … Continue reading
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Tagged batts, carding, drum carder, fiber, quilt, quilting, wool, word of the day
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How-to: hand card alpaca fiber
Note: I’m out-of-town this week, so this post is going up automatically. A long time ago, in a small apartment in northern Colorado, I processed four alpaca fleeces without a drum carder. It was…time consuming. I often spun from the … Continue reading
From batts to beautiful yarn: purple rain
In only 10 hours, you too can take a batt (it’s a sheet of carded fiber) to two ply yarn. But wait, there’s more! Recruit friends and family for the first dozen steps in the process, and you only have handle the … Continue reading
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Tagged art yarn, batts, carding, hand spinning, hand spun, roving, spinning
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Drum carder review: Pat Green’s Happy Hybrid
Cliff House Alpacas finally bit the bullet and invested in a drum carder. We agonized for long months about which carder would be the right fit for us, and finally settled on the the Happy Hybrid by Pat Green Carders, LTD. … Continue reading
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