Thank you, Paradise Fibers, for the card cloth to update my ancient carding machine. Your helpful staff made it possible for us to do this ourselves, and I’m thrilled!
Wonderful. It was easy to mount to the carders and works great for processing the fiber.
I purchased this carding cloth because the price was less than what I’d seen elsewhere and it was the size and tpi I wanted. The picture shows the cloth rolled up and I was concerned about getting it flat enough to make my own blending board, but when it arrived it was packaged flat, was excellent cloth, and I am very pleased.
This carding cloth is sturdy and is just what I wanted. I will make a blending board with it. If you're a little handy, it's good way to go!
Love it. Made a carding board
This High quality 9.5 inch wide Carding Cloth is sold by the inch and available in 54, 72, 90, 120, and 190 TPI for replacing cloth for drum carders, blending boards, and fiber processing tools. Take your fiber processing tools and blending to the next level by carding batts and rolags from various fibers including Silk, Alpaca, and Merino. Specially designed using raw materials sourced in Europe, this carding cloth is the perfect upgrade for your carders.
This carding cloth is created with an automated stitching system, specially designed to block the production in case of defects and maintain quality control. Every 1.2 cm single point of the flexible card clothing is tested for high quality performance. Choose our top quality carding cloth for your carders.
Sold by the Inch:
Choose your desired TPI and specified length/quantity for your carding cloth and we will cut your order. Please notate if you need any special dimensions.
Overall Cloth Width: 9.5 inch
Wire Field: 8.5 inch
Border: 1/2 inch per side
Tip Length: 1.2 cm
Teeth Per Square Inch (TPI): 54, 72, 90, 120, 190
The carding cloth’s teeth per inch (tpi) measures how densely the teeth are packed together. That density determines how much texture of roving is removed and how much color is blended in a single pass. The higher the number, the finer the carding cloth and the more smooth and blended the fiber becomes.
Think of tpi as it applies to a hairbrush: If you have fine hair, you use a brush with lots of bristles close together. This gives a smooth finish. When you have curly hair, you use a wide-tooth comb or a brush with stiff bristles that are far apart. These bristles leave the curls together rather than separating and smoothing them out.
Although coarse and textured fibers are best carded on low-tpi carders, fine fibers can also be carded on equipment with less dense carding cloth. One way to match up your cloth with your fibre is by paying attention to the micron counts (approximate) of your fleece. Let’s consider anything between 18-24 micron is ‘fine’, that 24-32 Micron fibers are ‘medium’ and 33+ micron fibers are ‘coarse:
Follow the links for more information on tpi and carding:
https://spinoffmagazine.com/carding-cloth-tpi-best-job/
https://www.majacraft.co.nz/?p=1140
We also carry 2 Inch wide Carding Cloth