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Hand carding and combing sheep's wool | Fur and skin

Keywords: wool, carding, combing, sheeps

Title: Hand carding and combing sheep's wool
Category: Fur and skin
Country: Poland
Period: XX Century
Provided by: AGH
Source: https://www.trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/tools/fibre-...
Photo Gallery: http://wiano.eu/article/1870

Description:

Combing and carding are two related techniques for preparing wool.

With respect to sheep’s wool, the two techniques are used for making either worsted or woollen threads respectively.

Combing is a technique whereby wool is passed through a series of straight, metal teeth in order to lay the fibres parallel to one another.

Carding is a technique whereby two hand cards are used. Hand cards are typically square or rectangular paddles. These cards have numerous wire teeth set into a paper, leather or metal ground.

The teethed cards are used to separate the fibres, to spread them into a web (but not in parallel lines as in combed wool) and to remove any short or broken fibres as well as impurities.

Further references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlWpVJ8pzGA

https://www.appropedia.org/Original:Carding_Wool