Above: Howard Brush circa 1900. Below: Howard Brush today.
Card Clothing is absolutely indispensable in carding textile fibres for the spinning process, which in turn enables the production of yarn for all the limitless varieties of fibres. We use a hardened and highly tempered steel wire that is remarkable for its longevity & uniformity. In addition, it is exceedingly tough wire which in turn lead to the development of our Tufferizing process - "Tufferizing" is a precision process of accurately cutting and setting the wire into the foundation.
The wire must have a foundation, as it is the backbone of Card Clothing. One of our earliest endeavors was to specialize in our own foundation. Each ply of cloth is made to our own exacting specifications, which call for long staple cotton, double carded yarns, specially prepared warp threads in the ply of woolen cloth, all of which then must be cemented or glued, which requires a fineness of skill and technique that can only come through accumulated experience.
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