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.
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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That's not to bash on those books; they're good books. But you've got limited evidence and limited pages and something has to always lose out and in it often seems to be pre-spinning preparation work.
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