Lisa and I bought another piece of equipment to ease the process of taking raw fleece to cleaned, picked, carded and ready to use fleece. The Triple Picker is hand crafted by Pat Green from British Columbia. He and his wife hand-make various equipment used for fleece. They seem like true pioneers.
I gave the picker a try. It takes some getting used to. It works like a charm to open the fibres up and get out seeds and small debris, but doesn't remove pieces of straw. I used the Triple Picker to pick an alpaca fleece I bought last year at the fibre festival that I have been spinning. Now the fibres are airy and fluffy. It will be much easier to spin. The alpaca fibres are ready for spinning with just some picking. Other wool fibres will still need to be carded before they can be spinned..
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| Wooden Triple Picker on the right and a boxful of picked alpaca fibres on the left. |
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| Just sit in front of the picker and rock it back and forth putting fibre through. |
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| Deadly teeth of the Triple Picker. It is very dangerous and could be a torture device! |
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| Wouldn't want to get your fingers caught in the triple row of picker nails!! |
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| Carefully add the fleece!! |
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| Rock the swinging portion of the picker forward.... |
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| and back.. |
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| until you get a pile of fluffy fleece. |
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