Article Info

Article Title
Intake Drum vs Main Drum
Author
Emily Wohlscheid
Issue date
Spring 2026
Issue number
52
Issue topic
Experimental
Description
This article looks at whether it makes a difference in a drum-carded blend if you feed fiber through the intake (licker-in) drum compared to applying it directly to the main drum. The author does a side-by-side comparison of appli¬cation to the intake drum and the main drum and tests the spinnability of the resulting blends.
Article topic list
experimenting, BFL, Rambouillet, bamboo, sparkle, silk, drum carding, drum carder, fiber prep