0 the process of using wire brushes to separate the threads of some materials such as wool before they can be used --
What with the washing and the oiling of it, the carding and the spinning, the twisting and the winding, she never seemed to be done.
Weaving, wool combing, and carding were skilled occupations.
There the wife and children usually were busy carding and spinning.
Some of the ladies were knitting socks, some carding wool, while they talked together, after the fashion of the good, industrious dames of the olden time they represented.
Carding was done by cylindrical carding machines invented by Lewis Paul.
