This document discusses carding, which is the process of disentangling and parallelizing cotton fibers in textile manufacturing. It occurs between blow room and drawing processes. The carding machine uses card clothing made of bent metal wires to separate and align fibers. There are three main types of card clothing: flexible, metallic, and semi-rigid. Flexible clothing has elastic backing and bent wire points, while metallic clothing is made entirely of wires and semi-rigid uses layers of cloth and plastic. Key parameters for card clothing include point density, base width, height, tooth pitch, carding angle, tooth point, and base/hardness. The objectives of carding are opening, cleaning, blending, parallelizing