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pugsweater
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 Posted - 07/07/2005 : 1:46:55 PM
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is it OK to use cotton carder for wool like merino/targhee/cotswold or should i just go with the regular wool carder?
thanx!
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RoseByAny
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Posted - 07/07/2005 : 1:54:20 PM
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It might not go through - cotton has very very short staples, so the teeth of a cotton carder don't need to be long. A wool carder would be longer, because of the longer staples it needs to cut through. That's not to say it won't work, but it is to say there's a reason they are separate tools!
Give it a try and see what you think. You won't damage things if you're gentle (the tools or the wool)
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
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pugsweater
Gabber Extraordinaire
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Posted - 07/07/2005 : 3:08:39 PM
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i tot the only diff is that the cotton carder has finer teeth! thanx, as always :)
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lella
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Posted - 07/08/2005 : 09:55:02 AM
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no no no.. it's really different.. heehee..
lella [img]http://smilies.sofrayt.com/^/9971/omelet.gif[/img]
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pugsweater
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Posted - 08/05/2005 : 09:45:52 AM
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hand cards come with different densities of teeth....coarse, medium, fine (in general).....
while it is not recommended to card fine wool with coarse/medium carder, what is the result of using fine teeth carder with not-so-fine fiber?
what kind of teeth density do you think is appropriate for cotswold? i have a 112 strauch. my rolags are coming out as a mass of fiber, not looking like rolags at all. maybe i just need more practice, but tot i'll run this through here...
thanx.
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pjkite
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Posted - 08/05/2005 : 10:32:25 AM
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I have one set of cotton cards. I prefer combing or flicking wool (which explains three sets of combs), but do occasionally card, usually to blend a small amount of fiber. It's never mattered whether I was blending cotton and silk, silk and fine wool, fine wool and kid mohair, medium wool and mohair, or even carding some Lincoln I picked up somewhere with some Wensleydale. These cards have worked fine for my purposes. So give it a try, pugsknits! At worst you're out a few minutes of time.
Pamela Kite
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