card clothing

The English system of numbering Card Clothing is now generally used by Cotton Mills.

Unless the cotton is well opened and cleaned, and good even laps are made, the Carding will suffer, and the Card Clothing will soon be damaged, which means poor and costly work.

Instead of the little hand cards, there are great cylinders covered with what is called "card clothing"; that is, canvas bristling with the bent wires, six or seven hundred to the square inch.

The place of the other is filled by what are called "flats," or narrow bars of iron covered with card clothing.

The second machine utilized a horizontal cylinder covered with parallel rows of card clothing.