History of leather – Skins and shoes
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 [...]
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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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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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What is hemp cloth? Chinese clothing
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 [...]
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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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Hemp clothing project – Ancient China
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 [...]
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Why was the cotton gin important? American History
Model of Indian cotton gin (1100s AD) How did people get the seeds out of cotton? When people in India first started to grow cotton, they picked the seeds out [...]
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Where does cotton come from? South America
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 [...]
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Old World Cotton History – India, Africa, Asia, Europe
India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
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Polyester fabric – World War II and the invention of polyester
Polyester fabric: a polyester shirt Who invented polyester fabric? The British scientists John Whinfield and James Dickson first invented polyester cloth in 1941 in England. World War II had made [...]
