Spinning tools

thumb|upright=1.35|Dyed wool being carded with a 1949 Tatham carding machine at Jamieson Mill, Sandness, [[Shetland, Scotland]] thumb|Cotton carder (known as dhunuri or lep wallah) in [[Howrah, Kolkata, India]] thumb|William Tatham Breaker carder. In textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered with "card clothing", a firm flexible material embedded with metal pins. It breaks up loc

weight to increase the rotation of a spindle