Drum Carders
A drum carder is used to card fibers such as wool fleeces, alpaca locks, angora and other fibers. Most carders have two drums. The smaller drum is designed to draw the fibers in, transferring it to the larger drum thus creating a batt for spinning and felting. Drum carders can also be used to blend different fibers and creating your own colorful batts.
Ashford Drum Carders
Ashford Drum Carders - Fine or Super Fine
Ashford drum carders come standard with a brush attachment, and two speeds are perfect for carding or blending all fibers and fleeces
These new, improved Ashford Drum Carders has two ratios for even more flexibility and control when carding and blending. Use the 6:1 ratio to prepare your fleece.
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Ashford Wild Carder - Go Wild!
Take your carding to the
Wild Side!
The
Ashford Wild Carder is specifically designed for blending
and creating exciting
fun, funky and wild batts for spinning and felting.
Create unique blends with "added extras" such as fibers, fabrics, ribbons, feathers, noils, cocoons, paper and more....
Ashford Extra Wide Drum Carder
This
drum carder his Huge! The Ashford Extra Wide Drum
carder is a serious carder that makes a massive 12" wide batt
and is perfect for spinning and felting. The fine carding cloth (72ppsi) lets
you card most fibers with ease.
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Ashford e-Carder 30
The Ashford e-Carder 30 is an electric drum carder that makes carding larger batts easy. The dual variable speed motors provide strenght while the acrylic covers offer safety.
Louet Drum Carders
No Need to Tease your fibers. Louet drum carder teeth are longer and flexible so you can feed fiber directly into the licker-in (feeder drum) Louet drum carders have a larger licker-in drums so there is no need to adjust the drum spacing! Louet drum carders eat right out of your hand!
Louet Roving Carder
New
design, same great quality! The Louet Roving Carder offers fine cloth, with long, flexible teeth and a four inch wide drum
that make a batt of about 4 by 30 inches.
Enclosed gears for smooth and easy operation. No lubrication is needed,
and no adjustment of any kind is required to keep this carder in great
shape! The long, flexible teeth will make a heavier batt.
Louet Drum Carder
Need a wider drum car
der? This
Louet Drum Carder
has an eight inch wide drum for large carding capacity
so you can make a big fiber batt of about 8 by 30 inches. The Louet
drum carder has also intermeshing teeth for great performance. The enclosed
gearbox assures smooth operation, while the extra high, flexible,
teeth allow for a heavier batt than other drum carders as well as a high carding
efficiency.
Louet XL Drum Carder
Supersize it! This baby is Louet's largest carder and will go a great job with all fibers! Perfect if you have lots of fleeces to card. Almost 12 inches in width, the Louet XL Drum Carder is huge.
Combine that with the large diameter drum that makes a batt approx. 30" by 12" and you will go thru your fleeces better than ever before.
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Majacraft Fusion Engine Drum Carder
Majacraft designed the Fusion Engine carder to perform exceptionally, and to reduce or eliminate the common carding issues experienced with other drum carders. The Fusion Engine has a higher and more efficient carding ratio than most carders, so it blends fibers more thoroughly with fewer passes.
Majacraft Fusion Engine Carder Details
Blending Boards
Use up small amounts of roving and create colorful rolags with your fiber.
Storing Wool Fleeces
If you are busy like we all are then ssome of your sheep's wool fleeces might not have gotton washed like they should have been. Hey, I have been there. Here are five safe tips of storing raw, unwashed spinning fibers or wool fleece:
1. Store your wool fibers in containers with a tight fitting lid. 5 gallon buckets with lids work great and you can really pack the fleece in these tight. You might also be able to use large plastic bags, but they can easily puncture it and pest infestation can occur.
2. Tuck in a small cotton pouch filled with dried lavender for extra protection against moth damage.
3. Don’t store your wool fleece it too long. Make it a priority to process these fleeces as soon as possible, so that you avoid matted and felted tips on your fleece
4. Keep fleece containers away from direct sources of heat (direct sunlight, hot water heater, radiator etc.) since any fleece contains a fair amount of moisture.
5. Don’t forget to label your containers with the date and the content, so you always know what you have.
Happy Carding
