Beautiful Suri Alpaca Bats and Rovings

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The Duncan Drum Carder is an 18 inch wide, power driven drum carder.  I open up the alpaca lock and feed it onto the drum carder. 

If I’m making a bulky yarn I usually only run the opened up suri locks through the carder once.  If I want to make a sport weight yarn I run it through twice, and finger weight yarn three times.

With each pass the fleece sheet that collects on the drum is more uniform than the last.

The fleece sheet that comes off the drum carder is known as a bat (left).  I roll my bats into tubes (below) for storage. Bats can be divided into sections along their length and drawn into rovings.

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Making Suri Alpaca Slivers and Bats

See how we make Suri Alpaca Bats

See how we make Suri Alpaca Slivers

See how we Spin Fleece Into Yarn.

See Our Suri Alpaca Yarn.

Visit our store that features Suri Alpaca Design Garments