Spin-Off Presents: Essentials of Handcarding - eBook Printed Copy Spinning Book

Looking for a way to build on your carding skills? This eBook was designed with you in mind!

With these articles from some of Spin-Off’s most distinguished contributors, you can turn your carding experience from confusing to confident. Find basic step-by-step directions to make batts, rolags, and rovings with handcards. Learn to break in your handcards so they’ll work better than ever. Discover techniques for carding cotton that will make spinning it a pleasure. Discover how a blending board—which looks like a single oversized handcard—can help you card for texture and color.

Contents include:

Basic Principles of Hand Carding by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts

Conditioning Hand Cards by Beverly Nissen

Carding Cotton by Beverly Nissen

Spinner's Question: Tools for Processing by Rita Buchanan

Carding on a Blending Board by Gwen Powell

This ebook, and all of Halcyon Yarn's ebooks, are printed in full color on acid-free coated stock, saddle-stitched and ready for immediate browsing and convenient posting next to your wheel.