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What is carding of wool fibers

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Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. ... In preparingwool fibre for spinning, carding is the step that comes after teasing.

Wool carding is the process of brushing the wool fibres to organize them. It creates a continuous web of fibres that can be layed out flat into batting, rolled into rovings, or split into spinning rolls.

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