Book excerpt: Though forms of the Blending Board have been around for a couple of centuries, modern spinners need a guide to the plethora of possibilities available with this tool. With the reincarnation of the carding board into Blending Boards the demand has risen for instruction on all the possibilities of fiber preparation on these boards. Want to repeat design elements in your yarn? Do you want to blend long and short fibers together? Have trouble keeping inclusions in when spinning? Blending Board Basics and Beyond will walk you through woolen and worsted fiber preparation techniques on the Blending Board. In this century fibers from all over the world are readily available. Gwen Powell includes preparation techniques for a common and unusual fibers.