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Ekelund Carder, an electic drum carder machine dre…

Ekelund Carder, an electic drum carder machine dre…

Ekelund Carder the first outing

The home of the Ekelund Carder

16 Jul 2012 86
The beautiful west coast of Sweden. The curves of the Ekelund Carder are inspired by the granite bedrock. The west coast granite was sculptured and polished during the iceage

Removal of the Swedish Batt from the electric Ekel…

05 Jan 2014 280
Note how clean the drum is. And the licker. Base blue faced lester (BFL) and the colours merino

Texel

11 Sep 2012 247
2-ply from the third carding batt of the wool with double cuts

Texel 2-ply

31 Aug 2012 233
Batt after one run from unsorted wool, all double cuts left in

Ekelund drum Carder - Gotland, from the bottom; 1s…

28 Aug 2012 301
sorted from the same fleece

Texel and Gotland

28 Aug 2012 302
carded on the Ekelund Carder

Bornholm yarn

14 Aug 2012 270
I am soo proud of the Ekelund Carder to be able to card the result is like this despite different staple lengths oh so sweet

Heidi in action with my new mixed batts in the for…

06 Aug 2012 283
Bornholms Middelaldercenter

Childrens' batt and hank #1 from the Ekelund Carde…

27 Jul 2012 209
White base. Visiting kids got to choose the colours for this bat. Yarn fresh without relaxing

Childrens' batt and hank #2 from the Ekelund Carde…

27 Jul 2012 218
White base. Visiting kids got to choose the colours for this bat. Yarn fresh without relaxing

Batt Batt Batt mixed on Ekelund Carder

Ekelund Carder - prototype

21 Nov 2010 254
Motors are harvested from the workshop and the drum made from the old kitchen worktop. Building on a shoestring is required when designing out of passion with no budget. It was only meant to be one for me and no more. Little did we know as luck would have it.

Chiyara

22 Jan 2011 235
100% Alpaca Carded on Ekelund Carder

soft mix

30 Jan 2011 259
100% Alpaca 100% Alpaca Carded on Ekelund Carder Arisina, Sapay and Cuña a lovelly soft mix (Pelle wanting on on the pic too)

Scoured Texel

28 Aug 2012 225
Despite extensive sorting there is still a lot of double cuts left in the wool Most of the debris I leave in. The Ekelund Carder will take care of removing it.

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