The Wool Journey Part 11: preparing to spin Part 3: what yarn to make?
Now comes the choice between carded woollen spun and combed worsted spun yarns.
The photos above show a worsted spun Blue-faced Leicester yarn and knitted swatch on the left and a woollen spun version on the right. There is also a downloadable information sheet about this on our website. In Part 10 we described the different methods of fibre preparation: carding for woollen-spun yarns and combing for worsted-spun yarns, so now we look at which should be chosen, for what purposes. This is something of a revision summary of earlier stages of our journey ...