Ashford Wild Drum Carder
The Wild Carder is a smaller, lighter more portable drum carder with longer teeth and a built-in adjustable packer brush to deal with chunkier funkier materials and "added extras" to produce a thicker batt.
- Carding width - 10cm (4ins)
- 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
- Extra long teeth, 72 point (ppsi)
Includes: Cleaning brush - stores conveniently under the feed-in tray, Doffer (Awl) - stores conveniently on the side - ready to use, Clamps, built-in adjustable packer brush.
Drum carder drive band
Flexi driving band for Ashford drum carders.
Fibre
A range of fibre from wool to exotic and luxury fibre for spinning, dyeing, felting: wool, silk, alpaca, cashmere, mohair, camel, yak and angora ready to spin. Also raw fleece
Spinning wheels
A range of Ashford Spinning Wheels delivered quickly to your door. I usually have some second hand spinning wheels listed.
Magazines and cards
Why not add one or two to your order? These cards, hand made by Jules of 'Always with a Heart' feature a textured sheep. Perfect for Christmas for your friends or for the spinner / knitter in your life. I now stock Selvedge magazine and Yarnmaker magazine.
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Spinning cotton, free eBook
Have you spun cotton? Did you know that it grows in natural colours as well as white?
This free eBook from SpinningDaily gives us some history, some tips for spinning the very short fibre with some patterns.
