how do I make cards to clean freshly shorn sheep’s wool?

we want to start producing products knitted by hand. We have available raw sheeps wool recently shorn. We have been told we need to card it, then spin it. Where can we get, or make, the equipment necessary to produce the yarn with which to knit.

NJ Sheep & Wool Festival

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how do you get the Shining Wool yarn for the Journey Rucksack?

I own Harvest Moon-Tree of Tranquility for the Wii. I am married to Jin and have a son James. I have all the ingredients but this one. I have my sheep up to 10 hearts. all i can get from my sheep are good or perfect wool. will the harvest goddess accept perfect? i would [...]

Going to Rhinebeck Wool Fest 2007 – Can You Recommend a Great Yarn Vendor?

Going to the Sheep and Wool Festival this October, but new-ish to knitting. I would like to get into knitting socks, and have heard that there is a huge amount of products and vendors there. Can you recommend some great yarn vendors there to look for (especially sock yarn) that are reasonably priced and of [...]

Frbiz.com Reports Hetian Sheep – Wool Spinning Line Construction Project

  Project content: Hotan City, to build a modern standard workshop, the introduction of more advanced domestic scouring, dyeing and spinning lines and other production equipment, build an annual output of 4,000 tons of wool spinning plant. The estimated total investment: 23 million yuan. Among them, our investment in 5 million yuan; other investment 18 [...]

S. Africa Halts Some China Wool Exports on Rift Valley Outbreak

S. Africa Halts Some China Wool Exports on Rift Valley Outbreak March 23 (Bloomberg) — South Africa, the world’s third- biggest producer of wool used to make clothes, has stopped some exports of the yarn to China, its biggest customer, after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever infected sheep flocks in five provinces. Read more [...]

Lebanon mill provides wool service

Lebanon mill provides wool service LEBANON — The bags of wool that sit on the floor of CreeksideFiber Mill in Lebanon go through quite a transition. Read more on Albany Democrat-Herald

Debbie Bliss Knitting Wool, the Complete Line of the World?s Finest Wools

Debbie Bliss knitting wool is one of the best quality wools. Wool is a term often used to mean a yarn spun most commonly from the fur of a sheep; but there are other sources and types of wools which are as soft and supple as the sheep’s wool. Types of wools Debbie Bliss [...]

Will my sheep shed his wool?

His mother is friesian and doesn’t shed her wool (she has to be sheared) but his father was fresian/dorper cross and shed his wool on his own. I was just wondering if it is likely or not that my baby ram will shed his wool when it is time to do so. I didn’t know [...]

Rhinebeck – NY Sheep & Wool

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