In principle there is need the raw fleece first to rid of dirt and to wash. There is good to card the wool, helping the Hand carders or with the Drum Carder for spinning or felting. Machinely carded wool is also available, but many people prefer in own hand working. By the carding you easily make the beautiful airy, suchlike cottonwool material, which there is a pleasure to spin from it. The big advantage of hand carding is a possibility of mixing colours and different provenance fibres and getting the unrepeatable look of your yarns.

are suitable for preparing less of wool and they are available in a few sizes and versions. The wood is without finishing.

is an invaluable helper for preparing bigger amount of wool for hand spinning or felting.

The card cloth has wire teeth with a special protective coating and a flexible rubber backing for long life. The carder is strong and robust with the body made from Silver Beech hardwood. The carder has rubber feet to prevent it slipping. It comes assembled and lacquered ready to use. Awl/doffer, 2 clamps and carding instructions are included.

With this card machine you can prepare wool for spinning or felting in 50g (2 oz) batts.

Use the 6:1 ratio to prepare your fleece. This ratio will produce a smooth even batt ready for blending, spinning or felting. Use the 4:1 ratio to blend sliver, colours and different fibre types consistently into an open and airy batt.

Choose from fine (72 point per inch) coating of carding drums for finer wools & exotic fibres (ADCF) or coarse (36 point) for stronger wools or fibre with more vegetable matter to remove (ADCC).

It's kinder on the machine to wash fleece before carding. If in constant use, the machine needs regular oiling.

You can see the drum carder in work on those pictures.

Adjustable packer brush to smooth, control and pack more fibres onto the large drum. Card mohair, angora, alpaca and other fine low crimp fibres. Fits all Ashford drum carders.

The Wild Carder is specifically designed for blending and creating exciting fun, funky and wild batts for spinning and felting. Create unique blends with added extras - fibres, fabrics, ribbons, feathers, noils, cocoons, paper and more ...

Features:
Built-in adjustable packer brush - packs fibre more efficiently onto the large drum and allows "added extras" to be packed into your batt.
Extra long teeth - allows you to make a thicker batt and to keep all your "added extras" in your batt
Carding width - 10cm (4ins) produces a very handy size batt ready to spin
Portable - compact and only 3.5kg (7 3/4lbs) with built-in hand hold
Makes up to 40gm (1 1/2oz) batt
Finished batt size 60 x 15cm (24 x 6ins)
Comes assembled and lacquered

Includes:
Cleaning brush - stores conveniently under the feed-in tray
Doffer (Awl) - stores conveniently on the side - ready to use
Clamps