Tag: Drum carding

• Picking and Carding Alpaca

  

  Once your alpaca fibre has been washed and completely dry it’s time to prepare it for spinning. To achieve a nice clean well prepared fibre we will follow two steps. The first step is picking. Nothing complicated here. You are using your hands to pull the fibres apart from each other, while pulling out large…

• Blending Dyed Fibre

  

  In this post we will revisit the yellow dyed fibre.  You will recall from the dyeing post that I used a new product called wash and dye.  As the product ensures that the dye goes past the cuticle of the fibre and into the centre of each strand of fibre, the developer recommends you will…

• Drum Carding a Fine Fleece

  

  Welcome back to our series of posts on processing our Rambouillet fleece from start to finish. Previously we covered how to Flick card locks.  You may recall that I stated  once locks are flick  carded, my preference is to then to put that fibre through a drum carder.  I like to complete this stage to…