Wool Carding with Sue Macniven

The main thing is to get the carding cloth fineness for the type of wool you will be most using it for. There is no point in getting a fine tooth cloth and then be carding mainly things like Southdown or Border Leicester. There are so many makes on the market, I have a Hedgehog which so far I have used mainly for colour blending of already prepared fibres and for coarse fleece like Texel and Border Leicester.

Thanks a lot. That is very helpful. Can not tell you how much I appreaciate you sharing your experience.

Just wondering (maybe you covered the question and I missed it), what do you think of carding drums? Do you have any experience? I have problems carding certain fibers and was hoping for sorting it by investing in drum.
Thanks for great videos you make.

Look up Patrick Green, Louet, Ashford and see what they offer, if you can get one that is easy to interchange drums all the better and only use it for washed fleece so as not to gum up the cloth with grease and dirt. You will find the best Batts come from pre sorted fleece.

Take off any brittle tips and short cuts prior to carding and if blending fibres card each one seperately first then, blend by proportion, you may have to do 2/3 passes, it helps if you do not think of it as a quicker way to card, just a different way. Good luck.

Ref your proposed dvd, I proubably would be interested depending on length, subjects covered and cost. I think my local guild would probably be interested in purchasing a copy too but I'm not in charge of their library so it would have to go through "official" channels I suppose!
thanks again

Thank you so much for these two vids - I've been carding and spinning for a couple of years (self taught!) and your tutorial will improve my fibre preparation hugely. You are very clear and your instructions make absolute sense. Brilliant!

thanks all for great comments, I am being asked at the moment to produce a fine spinning dvd/video for sale, would any of you be interested in purchase? or on other spinning subjects.
regards
Sue

Thank you so very much for these very thoughtful and very helpful videos! I've watched some other videos on hand carding, and this is the first one I've seen that really shows me what it is that I've been doing wrong, and how to make the most of my carders!

You are so kind and generous to post these. Your effort is greatly appreciated.

Hi Sue, it's been a long while since I've been here, but I just want to wish you a very blessed and healthy New Year! I just got back into knitting, and I also got blessed with a bunch of raw fleece, so now I have something new to learn~ cleaning stinky fleece! LOL!
May you and your family have a very blessed new year, God bless you hun, keep making more videos, hugs to you~ Dora :)