For Christmas, I was gifted with a blending board. This is a tool that fiber folks use to mix wool roving to create unique rolags. There is a term only for fiber artists. A rolag is a cigar of wool made from rolling the wool from hand cards or pulling a cigar of wool from a blending board. A rolag arranges the wool fibers in a tight tube for woolen spinning.
Here is the blending board after loading with three different colors of wool: grey, pink, and mauve.
I used 2 dowels to pull the wool off the board into rolags. I had enough wool to load the blending board twice. By the end of the process, there were 7 rolags ready to spin into yarn.




