How do you make felt? Central Asia activity
Sheep's wool to make felt What you need to make felt: raw wool from a sheep. Any color is fine. liquid dish soap bowl of hot water running water (a [...]
Sheep's wool to make felt What you need to make felt: raw wool from a sheep. Any color is fine. liquid dish soap bowl of hot water running water (a [...]
Homemade tie dyed shirt You'll need plain white cotton cloth, either just pieces of cloth or white T-shirts (but make sure they are 100 percent cotton!), and dye - the [...]
A sheep in a pasture The most interesting thing about wool is that sheep didn't always have wool, or not enough to notice. When people first started hunting sheep, they [...]
When was weaving invented? History of weaving: Warp on a loom Weaving was probably invented much later than spinning, around 6000 BC, in West Asia. History of spinning West Asian [...]
Spinning wheel in China, Song Dynasty (the date is unknown) Why invent a spinning wheel? For more than three thousand years everybody used a hand spindle to spin wool, cotton, [...]
Spinning fishing nets: a Roman mosaic of a fishing net, Hippo Regius, Algeria (200s AD) Hand spinning All of the cloth used in the ancient world was made with thread [...]
Hand spindles with whorls Spinning has probably been around almost as long as people have. Every group of people known on earth at least knows how to pick some long [...]
Early thimble-ring from Han Dynasty China (200 BC-200 AD) During the Han Dynasty, about 200 BC, Chinese blacksmiths started to make sharp, thin steel needles (this is about 100 years [...]
A pearl inside an oyster Very early in human history, maybe around 100,000 years ago, many people lived along the coasts of Africa and lived mainly on seafood - seaweed, [...]
Modern knitting history: Stocking frame knitting machine (1750) Knitting silk stockings In the 1500s AD, knitters in Spain and France started to produce very fine knitted silk stockings, with little tiny [...]