Wool Carders at the Straumen Farm, Norway ...

• Main Author: Campbell, Sandy
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Alberta Library 2024
• Subjects: Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7939/r3-b30d-6r72; https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/127ed210-8085-4c38-9905-dce999107a83

Wool carders have surfaces with teeth or pins that are pulled against each other to straighten the strands of wool in a fleece. In this image, from the Straumen Farm in northern Norway, there are two types. On the left a large with two handles, horizontal and vertical, is pulled against a stationary carder mounted on the end of a work bench. This kind of carder would create rolags of wool twice the size of the carders on the right. These carders are worked by holding one carder in each hand and pulling them across each other to straighten the wool. There are two sets of this kind of carder in the image, one set sitting on top of the other. ...