Tools of the Trade

Although all my tools for processing fibers is just as important as the next, this little flicker tool is one of my favorite. It may be small but don't let it's size fool you, it is a major tool in fiber processing. The metal teeth don't give when getting through matts and other parts that can be an issue.

It lifts the fibers off the drum carder making hours of intense picking out fibers done in just minutes!

Hardly a fiber left with just one pass of the flicker brush.

The next tool that is a must, is this batt picker. It helps to lift your blended fiber right off the drum carder with ease.

There is this wonderful groove that the picker slides into helping to life the batt right off.

This helps it to slide right off the carder, blended to perfection and ready to spin.

With those amazing tools, I worked through vegetable matter, felted areas that happened when I dyed the mohair and left it smooth and easy to spin. Without these valuable tools, I would still be wrestling with all these things and probably would have given up on spinning this beautiful but challenging mohair.