This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered with 'card clothing', a firm flexible material embedded with metal pins. Cotton carder (known as dhunuri or lep wallah) in Howrah, Kolkata, IndiaĬarding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing.
Dyed wool being carded with a 1949 Tatham carding machine at Jamieson Mill, Sandness, Shetland, Scotland. For other uses, see Carding (disambiguation).
