How To Card Wool: Four Spinners Four Techniques

In this short compilation, you'll explore four wool carding techniques from four expert handspinners, with a quick side trip to visit indigenous spinners in Oaxaca, Mexico. Each one has his or her own approach to this important first step in yarn making. Narrated by Interweave founder and Long Thread Media co-founder Linda Ligon.
Learn More:
If you want to learn more about handcarding wool to make consistent, easy-to-spin woolen yarns, you may enjoy the video workshop How to Card Wool. In this video, you'll see four master spinners, Carol Rhoades, Maggie Casey, Norman Kennedy, and Rita Buchanan, share their techniques and tricks for creating fluffy, lofty, spinnable rolags and some spinnable not-rolags. You'll also enjoy bonus content with Andrea Mielke Schroer and Narcissa Venigas Perez, a spinner in the Oaxacan highlands.
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Topics We’ll Cover:
0:00 Carol Rhoades' carding method
0:34 Maggie Casey's carding method
1:10 Norman Kennedy's carding method
1:44 Meet Narcissa Venigas Perez
2:25 Rita Buchanan's carding method

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

It was very interesting to see the various techniques for carding. The way Norman Kennedy cards wool is exactly the way I was taught/shown some 50 years ago . Interesting to find it is the way done in Canada because my almost 175 year old castle style wheel is from Canada, still retains some original green paint with very faded red trim, has its own personality from wear, can be a bit cantankerous but still spins beautifully!

[@mfg2324]

Thanks, that video shows great diversity! There's no wrong way of doing it as long as it works for you :)

[@LongThreadMedia]

We agree! Thanks for the lovely note.

[@sblaikie4149]

Lovely short video. Thank you.

[@LongThreadMedia]

Our pleasure!