Sewing history: A Neanderthal stone awl Clothes before sewing When people first started to wear clothing, about 60,000 years ago, they didn't sew it at all: they just wrapped leather [...]
History of linen: The Tarkhan Dress, the world's oldest woven clothing - linen, from Egypt, about 3500 BC What is linen? Linen is one of the first fibers that people [...]
Areni-1 shoe from Armenia in Central Asia, about 3500 BC How do you make leather? People make leather from the skins of animals. You can make leather out of the [...]
History of knitting: Nalbinding hat from Urumchi (ca. 1000 BC) Nalbinding and sprang Even before the invention of spinning and weaving, people were making cloth using early forms of knitting [...]
Felting probably got started in Central Asia or West Asia, about 6000 BC. That was soon after people started to keep tame sheep and breed the sheep to grow wool. Nobody knows how [...]
Travels of the Buddhist traveller Xuanzang (T'ang Dynasty, 630 AD) Xuanzang was a great Chinese scholar who lived in the 600s AD, under the T'ang dynasty. He was a Buddhist, [...]
These Buddhist figures are made of mammoth ivory An early Chinese travel novel Wu Cheng'en (probably) wrote his novel, A Journey to the West, in the Ming Dynasty, in [...]
Scythian woman fighting Greeks (Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, ca. 350 BC) Central Asian soldiers were famous for fighting on horseback. Because Central Asian people spent a lot of time on horseback, [...]
Central Asian science: A clay pot with a drawing of a wheeled cart from what is now Poland, about 3500 BC What was invented in Central Asia? Many of the [...]
History of coal: These are lumps of coal What is coal made of? Most of the coal on Earth formed during the Carboniferous Period about 350 million years ago, when [...]
