To spread the fibers evenly across the carder, take a lock and catch the cut end on the teeth, using an index finger to hold the cut end as you pull the lock forward and away from the teeth with the ...

In an Australian first, Adelaide-based wool buyer and processor, Michell Wool, is offering producers forward contracts for carding wools. Carding wool comes from offcuts, such as the belly and locks, ...

With fashion trends in Europe and the US supporting knitwear products — which are made from shorter carding type wool — the appetite for carding wool doesn’t look like slowing down. The carding ...

While prices have dropped from the record levels reached last August, they are still about 65 per cent of the value of Merino fleece when compared to the 20-micron indicator. And the demand for ...

It is often referred to as the daggiest wool on the sheep, but carding wool is now in hot demand, worth almost as much as a merino fleece. Cardings, which are often the greasy, short locks, are ...

One hundred years old and still running. That's the 1916 Davis & Furber carding machine, known as The Card, at The Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned cooperative in Putney that produces and sells ...

Newell | For the second year fleece and producers will be brought together with fiber artists at the Art in the Barn event held at the Newell Ram Sale building. The event begins on Friday, June 15 and ...