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Timeline of clothing and textiles technology.

• pre-history - spindle used to create yarn from fibres
• (unknown) - loom
• c.6500 BC - Approximate date of Naalebinding examples found in Nehal Hemar cave, Israel. This technique, which uses short separate lengths of thread, predated the invention of spinning (with its continuous lengths of thread) and requires that all of the as-yet unused thread be pulled through the loop in the sewn material. (Barber 1991) This requires much greater skill than knitting in order to create a fine product. (Theaker 2006)

• 4200 BC - Date of Mesolithic examples of Naalebinding found in Denmark, marking spread of technology to Northern Europe. (Bender 1990)
• 200 BC to 200 AD - Approximate date of earliest evidence of "Needle Knitting" in Peru, a form of Naalebinding that preceeeded local contact with the Spanish. (Bennett & Bird 1960)
• 247 AD - Dura-Europos, a Roman outpost, is destroyed. Excavations of the city discovered early examples of naalebinding fabric.
• 500 to 1000 AD - spinning wheel in use in India
• 600AD - Oldest samples of cloth printed by Woodblock printing from Eygpt.
• 1000's AD - Finely decorated examples of cotton socks made by true knitting using continuous thread appear in Egypt. (Theaker 2006)
• 1275 - Approximate date of a silk burial cushion knit in two colors found in the tomb of Spanish royalty.
• 1562 - Date of first example of use of the purl stitch, from a tomb in Toledo, Spain, which allows knitting of panels of material. Previously material had to be knitted in the round (in a tubular form) and cut it open.
• 1589 - William Lee invents the stocking frame
• 1733 - John Kay patents the flying shuttle
• 1738 - Lewis Paul patents the draw roller
• 1764 - James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the spinning jenny (patented 1770)
• 1767 - John Kay invents the spinning frame
• 1769 - Richard Arkwright's water frame
• 1779 - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
• 1784 - Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
• 1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
• 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard punched card loom
• 1816 - Francis Cabot Lowell builds the first power loom in the United States
• 1856 - William Perkin invents the first synthetic dye
• 1892 - Cross, Bevan & Beadle invent Viscose
• 1953 - First commercial Polyester fibre production by DuPont
• 1963 - Open-end spinning developed in Czechoslovakia

[edit] See also

• Timeline of invention

[edit] References

• Barber, E. J. W.; Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean; Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991; ISBN 0-691-03597-0
• Bender Jørgensen, Lise; 'Stone-Age Textiles in North Europe' in Textiles in Northern Archaeology, Textile Symposium in York, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles Monograph 3, NESAT III; London Archetype Publications, 1990; ISBN 1-873132-05-0.
• Bennett, Wendell C. & Bird, Junius B.; Andean Culture History; Handbook Series No. 15; second and revised edition; ©The American Museum of Natural History; A publication of the Anthropological Handbook Fund, New York, 1960
• Theaker, Julie. 'History 101' in www.knitty.comes:Cronología de las tecnologías del vestido y textiles