Drum Carding Tools
We’ve developed a full set of tools to help you get the most out of your drum carder. These tools will enhance the user experience and efficiency of any make or model of carder.
Our Standard Series Drum Carders are supplied with a doffer and a flicker. Our Elite Series Drum Carders are supplied with a doffer, cleaning brush, batt lifter, packing brush, burnishing brush, and diz.
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Drum Carders
Batt Lifter
$51.00 – $62.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe ultimate batt removal and storage tool! The Batt Lifter is the only tool designed to remove virtually an entire batt and store it without matting or felting before you are ready to use it. Fiber can be stored indefinitely, yet is ready to use anytime. Using the Batt Lifter removes more fiber from the carder than any other method of batt removal and with most fibers – even suri alpaca – removes 100% of the batt.
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Drum Carders
Batt Lifter Refills
$41.00 – $266.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe ultimate batt removal and storage tool! The Batt Lifter is the only tool designed to remove virtually an entire batt and store it without matting or felting before you are ready to use it. Fiber can be stored indefinitely, yet is ready to use anytime. Using the Batt Lifter removes more fiber from the carder than any other method of batt removal and with most fibers – even suri alpaca – removes 100% of the batt.
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Drum Carders
Burnishing Brush
$79.00 Add to cartOur burnishing brush allows the user to create a 50% larger batt. The straight metal teeth of this brush hone the teeth of the drum carder while packing the thickest batts possible. Bigger, thicker batts mean stopping less often to doff, leaving more time for carding and spinning. Batts that are packed with a brush tend to release from the card cloth easier than those that are not packed – leaving less fibers behind to clean and your batt intact.
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Drum Carders
Cleaning Brush
$48.00 Add to cartSimilar to a flicker but with longer teeth, our Cleaning Brush reaches the bottom of the card cloth when cleaning a Blending Board or Drum Carder. We recommend cleaning with a Cleaning Brush when switching colors or fibers and after each use. Unlike a flicker, the length and geometry of the carding cloth on the Cleaning Brush do not work well for flicking open locks of fiber.
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Drum Carders
Diz
$18.00 Add to cartA diz is used to remove carded sliver – similar to roving – from a drum carder or combs. Sliver removed from a drum carder will not be as compressed as roving and will spin and draft much easier.
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Blending Boards
Fiber Tweezers
$9.00 Add to cartThese tweezers are the perfect size and shape for removing every fiber when cleaning your Blending Board or Drum Carder.
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Drum Carders
Fine Fiber Cleaning Brush
$18.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThis brush removes those pesky fibers that stay behind after several passes with a flicker or cleaning brush. Available in blue (pictured) or black.
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Drum Carding Tools
Flicker
$40.00 – $62.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageOur Flicker utilizes a turned maple handle tenoned into an alder back. This combination of woods puts the bulk of the weight in the palm of the user’s hand, making this flicker as ergonomic as possible. The smooth, round handle provides for a comfortable grip in small or large hands. The 2.5” x 4.5” carding pad has 72 teeth per inch set in a vulcanized canvas foundation.
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Drum Carders
Lock Pop
$138.00 Add to cartThe Lock Pop is both a versatile stand alone fiber preparation tool and a great tool to pop open a lock before carding or combing. By popping a lock up and down a few times on the teeth, then pulling it through the teeth of the Lock Pop, the lock will often be spinnable as is, and will be ready for hand cards, a drum carder, blending board, hackle, or combs. Each Lock Pop comes with Free Shipping in the U.S.
Designed with speed and efficiency in mind, the Lock Pop functions equally well as a standalone tool and as an opener before carding or combing. The Lock Pop excels at:
- Loosening tight tips
- Removing vegetable matter
- Quickly preparing fleece for spinning from the lock
- Separating dual coated fleece
- Opening slightly matted or felted fibers
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Drum Carders
No Bend Doffer
$32.00 Add to cartSeparates even the thickest of batts without bending. You can stop ruining your old knitting needles!
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Drum Carders
Packing Brush
$62.00 – $74.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageOur hand-held packing brush allows the user to create a 30% larger batt. The nylon bristles also help dissipate static from carding and help to control fly-away fibers. Batts that are packed with a brush tend to release from the card cloth easier than those that are not packed – leaving less fibers behind to clean and your batt intact. This is the packing tool of choice when using a diz.
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Drum Carders
Rolag Block
$28.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThis block keeps an Elite Series Drum Carder from turning while removing rolags.
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Blending Boards
Rolag Dowel Kit
$40.00 Add to cartTo create rolags that draft smoothly, we recommend wrapping one fiber length around a dowel – different diameter dowels are ideal for different lengths of fiber. This kit has the right size dowel for most fibers from cotton to mohair.
