HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A WOOL BLANKET FROM SCRATCH BY A MAYA WEAVER?
Approximately 50-60 man-hours. Step one: Locate pure unwashed wool: Step outside, select two sheep with ready coats and shear them. One mature well-fed sheep can yield two kilos of wool, four times each year. A Queen-sized blanket will usually require four kilos of finished wool thread. A single bed size would have one and a half to two Kilos depending on the desired thickness of the blanket. Step two: Prepare thread.. Cardar: Card, to untanlgle fibers and prepare them for spinning. A card is a brush with teeth, a handheld fan, made at home, composed of the dried flower pods of Cardo Santo which resemble thistle. Carding will even out the density of short fibers by laying them on the teeth of the brush. Sacar todos espinas remove spines and foreign materia from the thread, depending on the quality of yarn desired. In lana rustica weaving, as in European peasant blankets, small pieces of remain in the yarn which is highly prized by some aficionados and purist collectors. Foreign materia
