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other. In preparing wool fibre for spinning, carding is the step that comes after teasing.

The word is derived from the Latin carduus meaning thistle or teasel, as dried vegetable teasels were first used to comb the raw wool before technological advances led to the use of machines.

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The ordered fibres can then be passed on after carding to other processes that are specific to the desired end use of the fibre: cotton,

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