Hand Carder (Cotton Card)
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
label: date made
content: 1804 - 1813
name: label: user
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: This is a wool carder owned by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. The carding process is part of preparing wool for spinning into yarn. Wool is brushed between two hand carders (see DL*006833.02) to align fibers in the same direction. The wool is rolled off the carder into a rolag and then spun.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Leicester
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Textile Processing and Production
label: Subject
content: Quakers
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006833.01
label: accession number
content: 28810
label: catalog number
content: 6833.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carder, hand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beech (board; handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (carding cloth; tacking strips material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, steel (teeth material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 9 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 24.13 cm x 25.0825 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: carding surface (across teeth only): 3 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 22.225 cm x .635 cm