![]() ![]() Roving can be carded or combed, but as it is drawn into a continuous strand the entire ‘rope’ has a small amount of twist added to it. However “roving” defines a specific process in its creation. Roving: The fiber world is transitioning to call any processed fiber ready for spinning Roving. ![]() Lowest brown fiber is batt style roving, Red NortherLights Sunset Pencil roving, Golden Tussah Sliver Dyed Cinnamon. Carding can be done with hand cards, drum carders or commercial drum cards. Carding aligns some of the fibers together however, this is not a perfect alignment and often creates lofty woolen spinning. This step must be used to create top and silver.Ĭarded: Carding blends the fibers together and to a degree aligns the fibers if used with combed fibers. ![]() Combs remove the shorter hairs and align the fibers. When you comb locks you take and remove the nepps from the spinning fiber. Here are the terms you might or might not run across and how they are different from each other.Ĭombed: Combing fiber is one of the ways to process raw fiber into many different fiber preparations, it can also be the only stage some spinners use. Some terms have evolved to have developed into general terms while others are still very specific to the steps that go into making it. Each one was developed to concisely inform about the steps and stages the fibers have been though. ![]() There seem to be an outstanding number of words that define the world of spinning fiber. Hand cranked drum carders create batts, while larger industrial ones will create either batt width roving or thinner. ![]()
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