The Carding process is one of the main steps in the Harris Tweed®️ production cycle. It is the process which brushes out each and every individual wool fibre, bringing order, consistency and structure to the randomness of the wool after the blending process. The wool passes through a set of rolling drums and brushes, and then onto the “card” itself - where the wool is finely tuned by another set of rolling brushes. The now parallel fibres are then matted together into a fine sheet or ‘web’ of wo

Carding is an age-old process that has changed so little that one of the carding machines bought by James Johnston in 1867 still worked satisfactorily until 1994, 127 years later. In the carding process, fibres are fed into a machine with fine wire rollers that separate, straighten, and align them. The fibres go through a two-step carding process, rotating midway to ensure uniformity. At the end, the fine webbing is cut into ribbons and condensed into twistless rovings. Discover more: https://bi