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Blending Boards
Blending Board
$347.00 – $457.00 Select optionsOur Blending Boards created a bit of a revolution in the world of fiber prep when first introduced in 2012. Despite many imitations, we still offer the safest, most graceful, and most versatile board on the market. Each board features our proprietary 72 TPI blending board cloth and comes with a matching keel and brush.
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Cotton Cards
Curved Back Cotton Hand Cards
$155.00 – $268.00 Select optionsOur second most popular styles of curved back card feature 120 teeth per inch and curved backs. This tooth spacing is ideal for cotton and other short, fine fibers such as angora rabbit, cashmere, and merino and rambouillet wool. These are the go-to hand cards for anyone taking a fine fiber class, and are the preferred style of Judith MacKenzie.
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Hand Cards
Curved Back Wool Hand Cards
$149.00 – $256.00 Select optionsOur most popular style of hand carders feature 72 teeth per inch and curved backs. This tooth spacing is versatile enough to handle most wool breeds and blends. These are the go-to hand cards for most beginning spinners, teachers, and historical demonstrators. Sold as a pair.
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Drum Carding Tools
Flicker
$40.00 – $62.00 Select optionsOur 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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Drop Spindles
Snyder Destiny 3 Turkish Drop Spindle
$30.00 Select optionsMade by our friends at Snyder Spindles, the Destiny 3 is a hybrid variable weight Turkish spindle. It is made of 3D printed plastic arms, hand turned hardwood shafts and steel screws. This is an unusual combination; the rubber like plastic is used for durability, wood for rigidity and feel, and steel for weight. The combination of these materials allows for the mass to be on the outside of the spindle, to increase duration of the spin. This is a complete redesign of what a Turkish spindle could be.
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Cotton Cards
Student Curved Back Cotton Hand Cards
$126.00 – $191.00 Select optionsThe smaller version of our cotton hand cards feature 120 teeth per inch. This tooth spacing is designed for cotton and other short, fine fibers such as angora rabbit, cashmere, and merino and rambouillet wool. While these are lighter and easier to store than their standard size counterparts, they do make smaller punis since their carding area is half as large.
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Hand Cards
Student Curved Back Wool Hand Cards
$122.00 – $185.00 Select optionsThe smaller version of our most popular style of hand carders feature 72 teeth per inch and curved backs. This tooth spacing is versatile enough to handle most wool breeds and blends. While these are lighter and easier to use and store than their standard size counterparts, they do make smaller rolags since their carding area is one third smaller.
