Weaving project – West Asia project
An easy way to weave with construction paper The best way to understand weaving is to weave something for yourself. You can do this with just strips of paper. Take a piece [...]
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06, 2017
Cotton, wool, silk, hemp – Ancient India projects
Cotton bolls hanging from the plants People in India were the first to grow cotton, about 2500 BC. It took four thousand years to spread cotton growing from India to [...]
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06, 2017
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 [...]
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06, 2017
What is wool? History of wool – Clothing
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 [...]
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06, 2017
Who invented the spinning wheel? History of spinning
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, [...]
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06, 2017
Spinning rope and fishing nets
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 [...]
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06, 2017
History of Knitting
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 [...]
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06, 2017
What did people wear? The history of clothing
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 [...]
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06, 2017
How do you make felt? Central Asian clothing
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 [...]
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05, 2017
Sogdians and the Silk Road – Central Asia
Gold coin from Sogdiana in the Hellenistic period The Sogdians meet Alexander Then in 328 or 327 BC the Macedonian conqueror Alexander conquered the Sogdians. Earlier Sogdian history Alexander the Great [...]
