Hmm. I was hoping to get retting, drying, breaking, scutching hackling (flax), sorting, scouring, carding and combing (wool) AND spinning in this week's blog post, but I think I am going to leave spinning for next week and pair it with weaving.
So, the tricky bit is that ancient artwork prefers to show spinning rather than carding, combing, etc AND most of the preparation work involves tools which don't survive archaeologically.
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But I am at the mercy of my secondary sources . Pre-spinning prep work often gets just cursory paragraphs. E.g. in Barber, Prehistorical Textiles (1992), spinning gets a 30 page chapter. Combing only gets the occasional mention; it doesn't even get its own subheading.
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Gleba, Textile Production in pre-Roman Italy (2008) gives fiber preparation (including shearing) for wool and linen 9 pages, spinning gets 22 and weaving 30.
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