carding

carding
/kahr"ding/, n.
the process in which fibers, as cotton, worsted, or wool, are manipulated into sliver form prior to spinning.
[1425-75; late ME. See CARD2, -ING1]

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In yarn production, a process of separating individual fibres, causing many of them to lie parallel and removing most of the remaining impurities.

Cotton, wool, waste silk, and man-made staple are subjected to carding. Carding produces a thin sheet of uniform thickness that is then condensed to form a thick, continuous, untwisted strand called sliver. When very fine yarns are desired, carding is followed by combing, a process that removes short fibres, leaving a sliver composed entirely of long fibres, all laid parallel and smoother and more lustrous than uncombed types. Carded and combed sliver is then spun.

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