Processing Dogbane fiber: carding and spinning with Sharon Kallis
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Sharon Kallis originally shared this video for patreon supporters of the Ground Shots Podcast, and a few years later, now we have made the video public. Sharon Kallis was a guest on the podcast, and hails out of Vancouver, BC where she spends most of her days working with wild fibers in urban landscapes. This video was a skillshare on how to process wild fiber using carding tools and drop spindles. She processes Dogbane plant fiber and seed fluff, but also describes how the process she uses can be repeated with other wild fibers like Nettles or Milkweed. Her organization is called Earthhand Gleaners Society, and you can find more about her online by looking up her org, and also listening to her podcast episode via Ground Shots, found anywhere you download your podcasts. This was a candid unedited video, so bear with us on its archaic unedited state.
check out Earthhand Gleaners RUclips channel at: @earthandgleanerssociety7622 especially recommend you watch Sharon in this video which is way better quality than our candid ZOOM one featured. • Wild Fibres: Clothing ...
OMG!!! This video answer every single question I have at this point in my fiber journey. I have been processing wool and cotton for a few years. I have only gotten to hand carders. I have not gone into drum carding yet. I don’t know if I ever will. I like the control of clarification I have with the hand carders. And I like working off of a puni, even when I have come across longer staple length. I like to work with my fiber from seed to fabric and animal to fabric. I am considering getting into additional plant fibers (nettle types, flax, hemp) and already grow a bunch that I think will work well. Every video I watch appears to me to waste a lot of fiber. As a cotton spinner I am often spinning lint… this has shown me that all of what most video appear to treat as waste (with flax, nettles, hemp type fibers) is actually usable. Fabulous! Just fabulous!!!
Your video was a lot of fun. Glad you posted it up. 🙂
Great video, clear explanations and really fun to see someone working with dogsbane! :)
This is wonderful thank you for sharing your knowledge!
WOW, very interesting and impressive. Well done for learning all this fantastic stuff and sharing. Awesome.
That was fabulous. Thank you
FYI, your post presentation conversation is included at the end of this video. I don't know whether you meant to crop that out.
it was an archaic unedited video from a few years ago, we are doing it differently now!
IS DOGBANE THE SAME AS DOGHOBBLE???
I may be totally wrong but maybe combing first then carding would be good
perhaps- it could likely be good either way!
Coarsest, coarser, coarse, pretty fine, really fine. Whether you use a card or a comb, you go from widest spaces between the teeth, to finer and finer, until it's as fine as you need it to be for your project.
Your video is pixelated. Wish I could see the details better, but the content is very helpful. Thanks!
Also, have you tried using a DIZ? I'd be curious about your opinion of using one with this material. Seems like you don't have enough material at any one time to one. But I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Do you degum the fiber before carding?
it helps release the gums
Yes. Ret first. You need to get the waxy outer material off. Then card it.
@@tinadriskell4469 I recorded this long ago via ZOOM with poor internet for the. Ground Shots Podcast audience, nowadays I would have a better setup. It's still neat info either way. If you want to contact Sharon directly, her website is www.earthand.com
Why does your dogbane fiber look silver, rather than the usual gold to auburn color?
I don't know. This is Sharon's dogbane, from BC, Canada. In different places, it looks different depending on retting, and climate of the location. I have seen a wide variation of colors depending on batch.
The red comes from the waxy outer cover that is removed. The fibers are silver.
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I'm not referring to the red outer bark.
Dogbane fibers themselves are yellow/gold to auburn after processing. I've never seen any produce silver fibers, except when using green stalks.
Huh. In Northern, VA they are either tan or silver. Silver if retted.
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Why are you retting them? They can be collected in November when they're totally dry, and the bark falls right off. Retting seems like a lot of extra work.
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