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Cotton Padding: Hand-Carded Webs Layered into a Batt
Batting or wadding is the soft layer inside a quilt or a padded wrapping. Pick the seeds out of raw cotton, card it between hand cards until the fibres lie one way, and lay the thin webs on top of each other into a batt.
The picture: our diagram, carded webs stacked into a batt.
Beginner
Half a day
Instructions
1
1
Clean the cotton
Clean the cotton
Pull the fibre off the bolls and pick out every seed and bit of leaf.
Materials for this step:
Raw Cotton Bolls150 gTools needed:
Basket
Balance Scale2
2
Card
Card
Load a small tuft onto one card and brush it with the other until the fibres lie more or less one way. Lift it off as a thin web.
Tools needed:
Hand Carders3
3
Layer the batt
Layer the batt
Lay the webs on a clean cloth, each across the one below, until the pad is as thick as you need. Press it lightly with your hands.
Tools needed:
Cotton ClothBalance Scale4
4
Cotton for your pad
Cotton for your pad
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Materials
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Tools Required
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