{"id":10345,"date":"2023-11-25T08:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2023-11-25T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T07:20:07","slug":"antique-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/antique-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Antique cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I haven\u2019t been very interested in antique cards before, I have bought modern cards because I have thought they were of the best quality. Recently though, I have become very interested in antique cards and the gifts they bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was teaching at S\u00e4tergl\u00e4ntan this summer I met Ingrid. She wasn’t in my course, but she was a spinner and we talked about spinning when we met at breaks and meals. Many years ago, it must have been in the 1980\u2019s, she had written some sort of report on old Swedish hand cards. She had met the last card maker in Sweden and even learned the craft herself from him. She still had cards left that she had made herself, with leather pads and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diagonal teeth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ingrid told me that the best cards have the teeth placed diagonally across the carding pad. That way more teeth would catch on to each fiber and card it more thoroughly. Most of the cards that had been made in the region of V\u00e4sterg\u00f6tland she had researched were made this way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the antique cards I bought have the teeth placed diagonally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was amazed at this detail and went home and looked at my own antique cards. I did have two pairs with leather pads. They were tucked away somewhere because I thought modern cards were better. When found them in an old and dusty box and picked them out into the light I saw that one of the pairs had their teeth placed diagonally. The leather pads were neatly fastened with tacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waves in the carding dance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With this new knowledge, my antique cards had suddenly turned into something valuable. I tried them and they carded like butter. Smooth and silent from all the years of work, with the teeth following my movements like waves on the ocean, like a dance in the choreography of the wool. With a smile in my heart I put my modern cards in the dusty drawer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wool dances across the carding pad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Antique card frenzy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A couple of weeks ago I got into some sort of antique card frenzy and started looking for antique cards on Swedish ebay. I had a few terms for the cards to pass. I wanted them to<\/p>\n\n\n\n