Recent research has demonstrated that many Neolithic and Early Bronze Age textiles used spliced, rather than spun, fibres. I'm using stinging nettle to demonstrate how splicing works, and will be weaving the results in a future video.

This video refers extensively to this excellent paper by Gleba and Harris: https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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