Carding Wool like a Ghost
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2016
- Preparing wool with wool cards for light, fluffy rolls or rolags to use with the long draw spinning method. Both flat back and curved back cards are demonstrated. This video is a companion video to "Spin like a Ghost" which covers spinning wool rolls on a Great Wheel using the manipulation of the 'half yarn' technique. Sometimes called 'double drafting or English longdraw. I learned this technique from Edna Blackburn at her Farm School located in Ontario Canada long ago. I hope you enjoy this dangerous and delightful technique. I never find it boring and I love the GW dance. -more on my blog (soon) at 'missingspindle.blogspot.com'. Many thanks to the Woman Behind the Camera: my unflappable daughter, Tammy Swales (www.tammyswales.com). She loves me no matter what Strange Persona shows up at a Shoot.
I don't know how I got here....but this was very interesting and I enjoyed listening to you! Thank you for sharing
Love these Exhibitions on how things were done in the old days we need to start learning again
Thank you so much for saying something I didn't understand. I had purchased wonderful vintage carders that were leather. They finally fell apart and I'm just struggling with new ones as they don't have that "bounce"!! You are the first person who ever said that and I am too new to know that was a thing with the leather carders. I miss them
Lois it is so nice to see someone that knows what they are talking about teaching wool craft. 👍
Well I declare, I used to do this when I was little with hairbrushes and that fake cobweb stuff...
Great video! Love the way you explained it
The best carding tutorial I’ve found yet! Many thanks for clearing this process up for me!
Lois, as a fellow southpaw, it has been very difficult for me to learn traditional crafts, as they are ALWAYS taught right handed. This is quite refreshing. Thank you!
Thanks 😊
Beautiful demonstration.
I am very nostalgic for when women gather and work wool together.
I have absolutely NO idea what I'm watching, but I love it!!!!! ❤️
After 6 years Im back to trying it out for single hand long draw and found 2” is ideal. 3” starts to bind sometimes. For sure need a light hand and getting it started is a trick. Im liking it.
Thank you for your delightful and clear instructions. I'm a fairly new spinner and have been looking at getting carders to process a bag of raw alpaca fleece I received from a friend. I feel confident now in approaching this process.
Scream like a ghost!!
Lois, you're hilarious! And very educational.
Ruby Gray
Thank you so much!! I collected a bunch of my malamute's fur and have been trying to card it and spin it using a hand spinner, and I was failing miserably until I watched your videos. Love how you show everything in such good detail. Thanks for saving my malamute-fur project!! Also your intro to these videos is hilarious and I Love it.
Excellent!! So clear to understand. Many thanks.
I noticed a lot of my ancestor women were "carders" in the old census files back in the 20s and 30s etc. So I wondered what they did.
I just visited Scotland and I was very intrigued to understand the whole process. This was very well explained and I loved her! She's so genuine!
Awesome! I learned something new! I always put the wool too far "up" on my cards creating the ridge of fibers that begin to loop around the teeth. I always just thought that was part of the draw backs of using rolags. I'm excited to try again using this new info
I love the "mirror" idea. That's exactly how I taught my Niece, a leftie, how to crochet. In fact, the mirror method works so well, because I'm facing my student, that I'd rather teach lefties. And, as the student this time, it was really easy to catch on to what you were doing. I've loved watching your videos; they're so much fun, as well as educational. Thanks ever so much for making them.
Lovely ghost! Did not know American ghosts were such good carders!
+Marianne Stella Davidson Early American Ghosts in the newly settled woods before 1850 often had no other option. I don't know if they were buried with their hand carders, however. My ghost's grave is nearby, but I haven't considered checking on what she was buried with. May I just also say that before these pioneer women were ghosts, keeping sheep in the wilderness was an unpredictable activity. Wolves love sheep in bad ways. Our area was settled after the Rev War; many veterans received land grants for their service. This land became available after the Iroquois supported the British and it didn't go well for them.
You are so precious! Thank you for this great teaching video! I love hand carding but don’t have it perfected yet, but this really helps!
Amazing. Thank you so much for taking the time to demonstrate this technique. I am so interested in how things were done in the 1800's.
I was fascinated. Really awesome to look at your work. I officially want to learn to make my own yarn. Thank you for this incredible video.
I attended a beginner class almost thirty years ago at a living history museum. My instructor taught us the same procedures that you are using. So excited to be getting back to my roots. Thank you for this video!
Nice to see another spinning southpaw. Helps when teaching spindling to righthanders. Interesting to watch your videos.
thank you for this 1 I have no clue to the tips and trick of carding but your explanation was clear and easy to understand ! I saw one video of an elderly lady in the 60/70's roll her carding on the back of the carding paddles. it was cool !
lady you are amazing, this is so interesting!
I Love your videos! Thanks for sharing them.
I love your videos, thank you.
thank you so much for the instructional video
I love you videos Lois! Thank you :)
This is wonderful thank you!
Thank you for this video, I just bought my carders and I am looking for videos to teach me to do it. Very informative!
Looks like very relaxing work
This was fabulous! Thanks xx
this is very helpful and educational video. Thank you :-)
This was amazing, thank you!
exactly what I was looking for!! thank you
Glad I found this video. My new goal is to be as good as you are...it’ll take a while! Great video.
Wow...find it really very useful and u explained it really very well...n let me tell u that u have a very pretty smile...so always keep smiling like dat
No clue how I ended up here, but you're new favorite.
Also, these are like giant dog slicker brushes!
;-) I didn't want you to be bored!
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I remember playing with one of these as a kid at a heratige park. They were okay for us to use and I’m both glad and relieved to find I was doing it wrong. I smashed the paddles together and pulled them both in opposite directions, making it hard to pull and for anything to get done. I thought that was how it had to be. Now that I know better, I’d love to take it up someday when I have the money to
I adore you! and your videos! xxoo
Thanks for sharing!
I decided recently that after spinning for about a year I wanted to start intentionally spinning woollen style yarn. Up until now I've been attempting to do the long draw method but I didn't know about the need for 3.5" or shorter fibres, so this is very helpful! I think it also may solve a mystery of why longer yarn was 'carpet yarn.'
Thank you so much
Fabulous!
it looks like smoke...awesome
Thank you so much for this… I have not been being gentle to my cards and I have been wondering why I’ve been so frustrated.
love it!
Oh wow; my mom had those kind of combs (she made her own dresses for a while) and I always wondered what they were!
Very educational. I would love to learn to do this BUT, I have been retired less than a year and I just can not learn all the things I'd like as the list keeps getting longer. Thank you for posting this video.
Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge. I'm very new to this. Could you recommend a video showing how to make a large batt for a mattress by hand?
Thanks so much! We raise Gulf Coast Native sheep and they have very short wool. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to work with it.
Lois, another gem, thank you. What is your tie shawl pattern?? Love it
I'm also wondering. It's a nice looking one. I think there is a few different versions on Ravelry. I'll have to start looking.
Wow! I may now be able to card rolls. I never saw a detailed explanation like this one. Thanks! How do I find your blog?
I hope you're doing well, Lois ❤
I found to be informative. Doing my research now for spinning. I raise rabbits for fiber. What form of spinning is good to start with? I am think Drop spindle after seeing the prices on spinning wheels.
I did this in school:-)
WOW!!!
Woww ❤️
I'm new to this and am collecting my equipment. Can you please recommend a set of cards? Thank you!
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I found flat bottom carders at paradise fibers ( their own brand) wooden not leather.
I have my grandmother’s flat back hand cards from the late 1800’s. The teeth are rusted and loose. Should I have them restored so I can use them, or keep her cards as she left them. I do have C&C cotton & wool cards so I don’t really NEED them to be working cards, but I would love to put my hands where hers worked.
+Janetnva I have a collection of old hand cards, though not my grandmother's, alas. The teeth are put into the leather in pairs - these pairs, if you could take them out, are shaped like U's. So the old leather carders have 'wiggling' teeth, rather than the firmly fixed Clemes and Clemes teeth in rubber backing ( modern carders). Sometimes the antique old teeth are too rusty and worn to use. But many times, they can be used - I start by carding very oily wool in them and discarding the first, rusty, rolls. The rust gradually stops transferring to the wool. Very worn out carders won't do a good job of carding the wool as the teeth are too worn down, too many are missing or the leather has disintegrated and can't hold the teeth well anymore. If you try to use your old cards, be very gentle at first to see if they are still strong enough. I would not restore them with new card clothing.
Q. How do you remove those small fiber pieces from the cards. My Ashford cards like to hang on to small strays.
I found one of those in my attic and thought it was a dog brush.. no way I would use it on my dog it would definitely hurt my dog. Now I know what it is. It's beside a big wheel so now it all makes sense
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I want to do this with fluff taken from Typhus Latifolia (North American cat tails). bulrush, common bulrush, common cattail, great reedmace, cooper's reed, cumbungi, marsh reeds.
How do you decide if you want to use flat cards or curved cards? What is the difference and what difference does it make in the finished rolag?
I think you make your choice based on what feels good in your hand (or in my case, based on what I could afford lol). The final product is the same.
I don't know how I ended up here. I was watching videos about knitting .
So i take it that my Cardigan was carded again
She's lookin like a ghost in all that white
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And....I wish I could come sit with you in peace....ahhhh....
Tudah Rbah (thank you very much). Before I leave, let me tell you, the real Name of the Creator is Hayah asher Hayah. Also, we are to do the 7 appointed times, in Levitcus 23. HaLLUYaH means, the praise to Yah.