[Ansteorra-Textiles] FW: drum carder vs. hand carders

Carolle Ternus cternus at texas.net
Fri Mar 23 11:11:41 PDT 2007


Warning: shameless event plug

Well, if you can make it down for the Fiber Arts College in Bjornsborg on
June 23, Mistress Corrinne has offered to teach a class on fiber prep, which
would cover using wool combs and hand cards.

Radegund


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Suzan Morang" <Suzan-Morang at cherokee.org>
To: "Spinners, weavers, knitters and other Textile makers in Ansteorra"
<ansteorra-textiles at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:20 AM
Subject: [Ansteorra-Textiles] FW: drum carder vs. hand carders


> Greetings all,
>
> Our group of novice spinners recently came into a wealth of raw,
> relatively clean wool. We were very excited about this and all the
> possibilities of future projects. However, after the initial excitement
> has worn down, we are looking at each other and wondering how to prepare
> this wool for spinning. As we do not own any hand carders or a drum
> carder between all of us, we will have to purchase some. One of our
> members has borrowed cotton hand carders to experiment on, but we don't
> know how different cotton hand carders are from wool hand carders. We
> also do not know the difference between drum carders and hand carders in
> terms of time, finished product, overall value, etc., so I'm asking you
> on this list to provide feedback if you have experience with any of
> these tools.
>
> We are also thinking about sending some of the wool to a mill to be
> processed into rovings. That seems like an attractive option to me, but
> I'd be glad to hear if anyone has any positive or negative experiences
> in this area. Any advice or opinions are welcome on what to do with lots
> and lots of raw wool.
>
> Yelena
> House Halfiras
> Barony of Northkeep
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