Question

In the production of textiles, women would gather and clean the fibers. Once these were complete, the next step would be to ___________________.

Answer 1

The next step would be to comb and sort the fiber.

Once the gathering and cleaning of the fiber was complete, the next step was to comb and sort the fiber.The combing of fiber was done to get rid of unwanted vegetation or debris that is trapped in the fibers. Combing was an efficient way of preparing fiber for spinning but was time consuming as well.

Answer 2

After the women had gathered and cleaned the fibre, it was then arranged in alignment to be wound into yarn or thread.

The threads are then later woven to produce pieces of cloth.

Nowadays, complex synthetic fibres are injured in the same process as cotton and flax were years ago.