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 [...]
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 [...]
History of clothing: Venus of Lespugue, ca. 25000 BC, now in the Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, wearing a grass or string skirt The first clothing Clothing was very expensive [...]
Wild hemp plant - for hemp cloth, oil, or medicine Where does hemp grow wild? Before people ever thought of using it for anything, hemp grew wild all over Central [...]
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 [...]
Hemp clothing project: A shirt made out of hemp cloth Visit your local craft market and check out some things made of hemp. What do hemp clothes feel like? What [...]
A cotton and alpaca wool cloth from Peru, about 200 AD (in the Brooklyn Museum) First place where people grew cotton South America was the first place in the world where people grew [...]
