Natural fibres

Carded cotton

Also known as: Carded Cotton

Cotton whose fibres have been parallelised by carding — the standard preparatory step before spinning.

~1 min read By Christian Habert Fact-checked by Clubmartin Textile EditorialAI-assisted Last reviewed: Sources (1)

Description

In carding, opened raw cotton passes through a card with counter-rotating rollers and fine wire clothing. The fibres are opened up, aligned and freed of dust, neps and tangles, forming an even sliver ready for spinning.

Carded cotton is the base quality, used mainly for value-priced T-shirts, towels, bed linen and technical textiles. Unlike combed cotton it still contains short fibres, giving slight pilling tendency and a somewhat rougher surface. Carding is a necessary preparation step for both carded and combed yarns.

  • Standard quality — more affordable than combed
  • Contains short fibres, slightly rougher hand
  • Somewhat higher pilling tendency
  • Foundation of all further spinning processes

Properties

ProcessCarding
PropertyContains short fibres, robust
ApplicationBasic T-shirts, towels, bed linen
CareWashable up to 60 °C

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Sources & references

1
  1. Wikipedia: Kardieren Wikipedia — Freie Enzyklopädie https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardieren

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