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Peacock Batt – Blending Tutorial
Inspiration is everywhere, and today we want to show how to turn your ideas into reality. The jumping off point for this tutorial is a peacock feather. It can be notoriously difficult to capture their beauty and shine, and all of … Continue reading
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Tagged batts, blending, drum carder, Fiber, inspiration, jewel tone, peacock, petite, yarn
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Artist Profile: Sara Renzulli – Sarafina Fiber Art
We recently came across the Sarafina Fiber Art website, and have fallen in love with her work. Sara Renzulli, owner and operator of Sarafina Fiber Art, works with wool roving to create felted creatures from fanciful to very realistic. Sara’s vivaciousness and … Continue reading
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Color Palette Blending
If you’ve been following our Pinterest boards, you’ll know that we have a board dedicated to color palettes. Today’s post will show you how to use these color palettes to blend fibers on your Strauch drum carder. Here we have started … Continue reading
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Tagged color palette, drum carder, Fiber, Strauch Fiber
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Carding Alpaca
Recently, we’ve been focusing on carding alpaca fiber. The beautiful long staple length of alpaca is incredibly warm and soft, and ideal for a variety of projects. Alpaca is a fiber that benefits from proper prep. Drape is the characteristic that its … Continue reading
Alpaca Facta
Customers tell us that the Strauch carder is the best drum carder on the market. We’ve spent a lot of time and hard work into creating this ideal machine. Strauch drum carders are great for carding a variety of fibers, … Continue reading
Staff Highlight: Liz Ackermann
Today we’re featuring one of our staff, Liz Ackermann. Liz has worked for Strauch Fiber Equipment for more than 10 years assembling drum carders, ball winders, and swifts. In her spare time, she enjoys weaving, spinning, knitting and whatever other … Continue reading
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Tagged behind the scenes, drum carder, Fiber, interview, Strauch Fiber, strauch fiber equipment, strauch team
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WestPark Alpacas
Today we’re excited to feature one of our customers, an alpaca farm in Pennsylvania that purchased a Strauch carder for creating batts from their alpaca fiber which are turned into felted pieces. Below is an interview with Pat Scheer, one … Continue reading
Keeping Your Drum Carder Clean
Like it or not, fiber gets EVERYWHERE. On all chain drive carders, it’s important to keep fiber off the idler shaft and the sprocket. As fiber accumulates, it pushes on the small sprocket and will eventually cause the carder to … Continue reading
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Tagged drum carder, maintenance, tips
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Featured Artist: Elysa Darling
Today we’re excited to feature a wonderful fiber artist, Elysa Darling from 222Handspun. Elysa creates and sells beautiful art batts and art yarns through her Etsy shop, and blogs on her website, 222Handspun. Today we’re sharing photos of Elysa’s batts … Continue reading
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Tagged drum carder, fiber artist, hand carding, mad batt'r
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Behind the Scenes at the Strauch Workshop
Welcome to the Strauch Fiber Equipment Blog! To start off our blog we thought we’d write about the early days of our workshops here in New Castle, Virginia. Strauch Fiber Equipment started building its workshop in Spring of 1999. The … Continue reading
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Tagged behind the scenes, carder, drum carder, Fiber, strauch, strauch fiber equipment, virginia, workshop
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