What Is Carding Wool Rugs

Wool rugs are one of the best quality fabric floor coverings available.
What is carding wool rugs. 54 tpi is the coarsest they come and you use this for carding coarse wool. Drop spindle and spinning wheel. Carding produces what s called a rolag or small roll that is ready for spinning. Carding pulls the fibers straight while removing any remaining dirt or vegetable matter.
Comb for wool carding is carried out as follows. After washing or spot cleaning brush your rug gently with a carding brush while still damp. And again once completely dry to encourage original fluffy appearance. Brushing the fibers to remove the tangles and align the wool in a uniform direction.
Tpi stands for teeth per inch and it determines how many points you d find on one square inch of carding cloth. 56 tpi coarse designed for producing batts and blending fibers. Wool is one of the most durable materials for carpets and wool rugs go back to ancient times. 72 tpi is a good all around carding cloth if you re used to working with wool in varying levels of coarseness.
Carding cloth is identified by its density of the pointed wire matrix measured as teeth per inch or tpi. They are much in demand because of their value style versatility beauty and long life. 72 tpi standard designed for most wool and similar animal hair. The wool is pulled into slivers long strips of fibers loosely pulled together and running in the same direction.
Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. The carding brush is designed specifically for brushing sheepskin. It breaks up locks and unorganised clumps of fibre and then aligns the individual fibres to be parallel with each other. Wool is fitted onto the comb s teeth and torn by hands into two parts then the two bunches of wool were put together again and the operation is repeated until all the fibers in a bunch align in the same direction more or less.
At sheep to shawl we demonstrate two methods. Please refer to the care tab for more information about looking after your rug. The typical carding cloth options for drum carders are. Twisting the wool fibers so that they form a single strand of yarn.
If after carding the wool is under 3 inches almost 8 centimeters it is twisted into rovings rope like strands that can be spun for knitting. It can also be used for blending mohair with other fibers but is not suitable for 100 baby kid and other very fine delicate specialty fibers which are best carded entirely on the fur or fine drum or spun from picked locks. The medium carding cloth is excellent for the first carding of most mohair. In the grease means that the lanolin that naturally comes with the wool has not been washed out leaving the wool with a slightly greasy feel.