Spinning

To prepare the roving from the carder for spinning into yarn, it is doubled and drafted (stretched) in the draw frame.  Two or more cans of roving are fed into the draw frame, which combines them and drafts them back out to slightly longer than the combined length of the original roving strands.  This process makes the roving that is finally fed into the spinner more consistent than when it emerged from the carder.

The cans of roving from the draw frame are fed to the spinner, which drafts the roving into a thinner strand and adds the twist that locks the fibers together to make yarn.  The strand of yarn (called a single) is wound on a bobbin.

When the bobbins are full, they are moved to the plyer, which is another spinner with a rack to hold the bobbins for plying.  Two or more singles are twisted together in the opposite direction the singles were twisted.  We now have a finished yarn with balanced twist.  These bobbins are steamed and wound into skeins or onto cones.

THIS CONCLUDES OUR TOUR