That's how my oaxacan ancestors "carded" cotton... just beat the snot out of it with some sticks! Haha. They would use barrel cactus to card wool and agave fibers... So risky!
Thank you for doing your series on cotton. I have been curious how someone would work cotton on a small scale because I found out cotton comes naturally in different colors like pale pink, green and brown. This excited me because I live in Texas where cotton grows easily. I want to give it a go at growing it but didn't know what to do with it once it did grow. So Thank you for your guidance!
Wow, my discussion about processing cotton without carders really was relevant. After my cotton started matting together into lumps due to how often I would fidget with it, I tried willowing it, but it didn't seem to work. I started using a bow on it, and that's been much more effective at going directly from dense clumps to spinnable fluff. I want to find more info on the bowing part, but that's quite obscure too.
Soundwave Bowing seems to be the best way and I have seen videos from around the World, but very little written information. There is a short segment with the technique in Norman Kennedy’s video about flax and cotton, but he basically just shows how he does it.
@@josefinwaltin It really helps open up the ginned cotton. I have grown some cotton at home. When I pick the seeds like you did in the video, I open up the fiber around each seed. It fluffs up the cotton and is much easier to card.
This looks so relaxing. I just wanna come over and have you teach me all of this while I sit there and remove seeds from cotton. That sounds like a dream!
Thank you for this video. I have grown cotton for 2 years now and have ginned a decent amount. I am getting ready to take the plunge and order some carders. They are fairly expensive on Amazon. Do you know of another source where the carders might be cheaper than $80?
Hand cards can be pricy. I found a shop with different brands of hand cards and different prices, halcyonyarn.com/spinning/equipment/carders-and-combs/cotton-carders. I don't have cotton cards, instead I use wool cards with a high tpi, intended for fine wool.
I know this is an old comment but I once found brushes for pets that looked awfully like the cards in this video at local dollar stores and pet stores. I’m knew to processing cotton so I don’t know if they would work but I might try them when the time comes. They are much smaller than the ones showed here but if cheap is the most important thing then I personally would be able to look past it especially for something small scale. The brushes from the dollar store were obviously $1 USD and the ones at the pet store were around $10-$15 USD.
That is awesome! Is your cat a Forest Cat? I thought he was going to attack the cotton haha My Honey Bees absoluetly love the Cotton Flowers. They work as hard as you. Bees work hard to make pollen bread and Honey from Cotton flowers and Humans work hard to make cotton. Great Video Music is good aswell.
How do you get the seeds to come out so clean? I'm a beginnger. Like, I'm sitting here with my first tiny collection of cotton. I gathered this cotton from the ditches it blows into in North Texas. It actually holds sentimental value to me. It isn't much at all. And I may not be able to do anything with the amount I have but I don't care. I never thought I planting the seeds. So I have 3 questions, I guess. 1. How do you get your seed to come out so clean. 2. Can you plant seeds that still have that cotton that just sticks to it? 3. What about cotton that has leave and other debris, how would I clean that? Will carding get that out of do I do it by hand? Oh please say by hand.. LOL Whoops.. 4 questions. Last on is, what did you write on the envelope you are holding your seeds in? Thank you so much for your video. I love watching and learning.
There are many different kinds of cotton and they all behave differently. I got the seeds decently clean by determination and manual work. Some seeds are easier, others harder to decottonify. I am pretty sure you can plant the seeds with the cotton still attached to it. The seed's job is to sprout so I don't think some fibers will stop it from doing so. Cleaning the bolls from leaves and debris is also a manual labour. The process from boll to fiber does take a lot of time and manual work. I don't think carding will get the vegetable matter out. I wrote Gossypium Barbadesne on the envelope, the Latin name for cotton. Happy spinning!
@@josefinwaltin Thank you so much! Some of my cotton is old. Is that ok? Or does it have to be fresh? Thank you so so much for sharing your wisdom and keeping hand processing alive!
@@MikkiInWaiting I haven't got experience enough to answer you on this question. What I do know from experience, though is that the processing needs to be fresh, like for any fiber. Old rolags don't spin well. Give your fiber a try and see what works.
I use regular wool cards, 108 tpi. Proper cotton cards are smaller and have shorter teeth. I haven't seen a diy manual for hand cards, but you can always try dog brushes. They usually work just fine, but do break after a while.
At the 3:50 mark the video says "short fibers: short strokes," do short fibers tend to do better in spinning, or am I trying to avoid short strokes and fibers?"
I mean that when you card short fibers you Do it with short strokes. With longer fibers you card with longer strokes. I spin fibers of many different lengths and I need to adapt my preparation method to the fibers. Does that answer your question?
hi, once all bolls are removed does the cotton plant continue to grow and produce again next year? or do i pull them out and start all over by planting new seeds??
While I enjoyed the video I am legally blind and would have greatly benefitted from narration of the steps. Do you have videos with narration or can you recommend some? I was amazed at how loud your cat purred. Thank you.
Thank you for this important question. A few of my videos are narrated (with a speaker voice added afterwards), but most of them are with video only or video with keywords. I live in a noisy environment and the audio quality is therefore poor with the audio equipment I have. However, in every description of every video there is a link to a blog post that should be compatible with braille displays or speech synthesis. In the blog posts I describe what I do in the videos. Here are links to narrated videos I have made: Spinning on a great wheel, ua-cam.com/video/wUZD2uybSmU/v-deo.html Teasing wool with combs, ua-cam.com/video/YvvzbJ0M78k/v-deo.html Fermented suint method, ua-cam.com/video/u2ze7rpWORE/v-deo.html And oh, you should be amazed about the loud purr. It is a sound effect from my editing program :) You can also check out Amanda Hannaford, Longdraw James and Heavenly Handspinning here on UA-cam for narrated videos.
Nej, det krävs ett varmt och fuktigt klimat för bomullsodling. Ullen jag använder i filmen kommer från ett växthus i en botanisk trädgård i Sverige, dock.
That's how my oaxacan ancestors "carded" cotton... just beat the snot out of it with some sticks! Haha. They would use barrel cactus to card wool and agave fibers... So risky!
A skill to learn with care, no doubt! 😊
Thank you for doing your series on cotton. I have been curious how someone would work cotton on a small scale because I found out cotton comes naturally in different colors like pale pink, green and brown. This excited me because I live in Texas where cotton grows easily. I want to give it a go at growing it but didn't know what to do with it once it did grow. So Thank you for your guidance!
MrsMika Thank you and happy gardening!
Hi
Will really like to know how your cotton planting and processing is going so far.
I was thrilled to see you opening up cotton with sticks as my mother used to do that.
Thank you so much for sharing these steps and your language so beautifully.
Thank you! 😊
Wow, my discussion about processing cotton without carders really was relevant.
After my cotton started matting together into lumps due to how often I would fidget with it, I tried willowing it, but it didn't seem to work. I started using a bow on it, and that's been much more effective at going directly from dense clumps to spinnable fluff. I want to find more info on the bowing part, but that's quite obscure too.
Soundwave Bowing seems to be the best way and I have seen videos from around the World, but very little written information. There is a short segment with the technique in Norman Kennedy’s video about flax and cotton, but he basically just shows how he does it.
I think it’s delightful that the Swedish words for spinning and purring are the same ☺️
Isn't it! And in a few other languages too.
I remembered your previous video about willowing and did it before carding cotton yesterday. Thank you for sharing these beautiful videos
@@josefinwaltin It really helps open up the ginned cotton. I have grown some cotton at home. When I pick the seeds like you did in the video, I open up the fiber around each seed. It fluffs up the cotton and is much easier to card.
Wonderful!
This video is very informative and pleasing to watch. Thank you so much for posting!
Cheers from Brazil 😊
Obrigada!
This looks so relaxing. I just wanna come over and have you teach me all of this while I sit there and remove seeds from cotton. That sounds like a dream!
I'll put the kettle on!
Thank you very much, I was looking for a video which shows how yarn is made from cotton. You are amazing
Thank you! 😊
Thank you so much kind woman, I always wanted to know how how they do cotton tread by hand 🤚🏾. Thank you once again 💝
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Josefin Waltin Yes thank you
You and your work are amazing ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for sharing how to process cotton you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^
Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing this.
So happy to see you with a new video. Thank you!!
Thank you Jess!
Thank you for this video. I have grown cotton for 2 years now and have ginned a decent amount. I am getting ready to take the plunge and order some carders. They are fairly expensive on Amazon. Do you know of another source where the carders might be cheaper than $80?
Hand cards can be pricy. I found a shop with different brands of hand cards and different prices, halcyonyarn.com/spinning/equipment/carders-and-combs/cotton-carders. I don't have cotton cards, instead I use wool cards with a high tpi, intended for fine wool.
I know this is an old comment but I once found brushes for pets that looked awfully like the cards in this video at local dollar stores and pet stores. I’m knew to processing cotton so I don’t know if they would work but I might try them when the time comes. They are much smaller than the ones showed here but if cheap is the most important thing then I personally would be able to look past it especially for something small scale. The brushes from the dollar store were obviously $1 USD and the ones at the pet store were around $10-$15 USD.
Excellent video, just like I used to as a child!
Thank you! 🌸
That is awesome! Is your cat a Forest Cat? I thought he was going to attack the cotton haha My Honey Bees absoluetly love the Cotton Flowers. They work as hard as you. Bees work hard to make pollen bread and Honey from Cotton flowers and Humans work hard to make cotton. Great Video Music is good aswell.
The cat is a Siberian cat I believe, my neighbors'.
That cat is very nice
He is!
thank you so much, for sharing I have been interested in cotton
How do you get the seeds to come out so clean? I'm a beginnger. Like, I'm sitting here with my first tiny collection of cotton. I gathered this cotton from the ditches it blows into in North Texas. It actually holds sentimental value to me. It isn't much at all. And I may not be able to do anything with the amount I have but I don't care. I never thought I planting the seeds. So I have 3 questions, I guess. 1. How do you get your seed to come out so clean. 2. Can you plant seeds that still have that cotton that just sticks to it? 3. What about cotton that has leave and other debris, how would I clean that? Will carding get that out of do I do it by hand? Oh please say by hand.. LOL Whoops.. 4 questions. Last on is, what did you write on the envelope you are holding your seeds in?
Thank you so much for your video. I love watching and learning.
There are many different kinds of cotton and they all behave differently. I got the seeds decently clean by determination and manual work. Some seeds are easier, others harder to decottonify. I am pretty sure you can plant the seeds with the cotton still attached to it. The seed's job is to sprout so I don't think some fibers will stop it from doing so. Cleaning the bolls from leaves and debris is also a manual labour. The process from boll to fiber does take a lot of time and manual work. I don't think carding will get the vegetable matter out. I wrote Gossypium Barbadesne on the envelope, the Latin name for cotton. Happy spinning!
@@josefinwaltin Thank you so much! Some of my cotton is old. Is that ok? Or does it have to be fresh? Thank you so so much for sharing your wisdom and keeping hand processing alive!
@@MikkiInWaiting I haven't got experience enough to answer you on this question. What I do know from experience, though is that the processing needs to be fresh, like for any fiber. Old rolags don't spin well. Give your fiber a try and see what works.
3:20 What are on the surface of a cotton carder? Are those 1 inch metal nails? Is it possible to make a diy carder at home?
I use regular wool cards, 108 tpi. Proper cotton cards are smaller and have shorter teeth. I haven't seen a diy manual for hand cards, but you can always try dog brushes. They usually work just fine, but do break after a while.
Really nice
Thank you!
@@josefinwaltin great what is the time there?
At the 3:50 mark the video says "short fibers: short strokes," do short fibers tend to do better in spinning, or am I trying to avoid short strokes and fibers?"
I mean that when you card short fibers you Do it with short strokes. With longer fibers you card with longer strokes. I spin fibers of many different lengths and I need to adapt my preparation method to the fibers. Does that answer your question?
hi, once all bolls are removed does the cotton plant continue to grow and produce again next year? or do i pull them out and start all over by planting new seeds??
I have not successfully planted cotton myself. According to Wikipedia some cotton sorts are annuals and others perennials.
nice video i enjoyed it !!! really appreciated it
Thank you! 🌸
Is this Bog Cotton? Could one use Bog Cotton for spinning?
Thanks for sharing
No, it’s real cotton, gossypium barbadense. I know people have tried to spin bog cotton, but it’s too short and soft.
@@josefinwaltin thank you for your reply
Thank you so much
Whoa that was amazing :D
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice
Song credit, please!
Your cat looks like a squirrel in the thumbnail. Just thought I should inform you. 😂
Serves him right, he takes naps in my flax patch. 😊
👏🏻👏🏻
Superb
While I enjoyed the video I am legally blind and would have greatly benefitted from narration of the steps. Do you have videos with narration or can you recommend some? I was amazed at how loud your cat purred. Thank you.
Thank you for this important question. A few of my videos are narrated (with a speaker voice added afterwards), but most of them are with video only or video with keywords. I live in a noisy environment and the audio quality is therefore poor with the audio equipment I have. However, in every description of every video there is a link to a blog post that should be compatible with braille displays or speech synthesis. In the blog posts I describe what I do in the videos. Here are links to narrated videos I have made: Spinning on a great wheel, ua-cam.com/video/wUZD2uybSmU/v-deo.html Teasing wool with combs, ua-cam.com/video/YvvzbJ0M78k/v-deo.html Fermented suint method, ua-cam.com/video/u2ze7rpWORE/v-deo.html And oh, you should be amazed about the loud purr. It is a sound effect from my editing program :) You can also check out Amanda Hannaford, Longdraw James and Heavenly Handspinning here on UA-cam for narrated videos.
@@josefinwaltinthank you.
In my language (afrikaans) spin and purr is also the same
Yes!
Så vackert!
والله ما انتي فالحة يا حاجة
Vokste bomull i Sverige?
Nej, det krävs ett varmt och fuktigt klimat för bomullsodling. Ullen jag använder i filmen kommer från ett växthus i en botanisk trädgård i Sverige, dock.
Carding tool purchasing link send me pls
I use Kromski hand cards, 108 tpi. woolery.com/kromski-hand-carders.html
@@josefinwaltin tq
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That cat looks bigger than her leg