Your dilemma is interesting. In "What Clothes Reveal" a linen/wool blend is
referred to as linsey-woolsey (for obvious reasons) in the 18th century,
and somewhere they talk about cloth "dyed in the wool"...where a wool blend
is dyed and the wool takes the dye more or differently from the other fiber
producing a textured effect. Assuming the wool takes the dye more, that
would I guess be dying it for the wool not the other fibers. Very accurate
for the 18th century, but I'll bet this type of thing goes way back.
I'd dye it for the wool.
Of course, do a test! The linen dye might be fine.
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