INTRODUCTION:
When early people realised they needed more than their own hair and skin
to protect them from the weather, they looked around to see what was available.
People lived in a cold climate, saw animals with skins that kept them warm.
They hunted these animals for food and used the fur to cover their body.
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF
SEWING AND FABRIC:
Once they
started to hunt they used the skin of animals as clothes. This skin when
continuously used becomes harder and made difficult for them to hunt. For this
purpose he started to treat the skin to preserve its softness. Later the bones
of animals were used as needle and nerves were used as thread to stitch the
hides.
Ancient people used Grasses, reeds, leaves and stems to cover their
body. He also learned to spin the fiber, convert it into yarn and these yarns
are interlaced to form a cloth. Flax and wool were the first of the fiber to be
used because they were easier to twist into yarn than cotton. They also used
the hair of animals as bed, in due course, these hair tangled with each other
and formed as a fabric. This method is only followed while making felt cloth.
After thousands of years of wandering, people learned that they could
live in one place with other humans and grow what they needed. This is known as
an agrarian society. People learned how to raise certain animals for the meat
and the skins. They learned to grow certain plants for food. People no longer
had to spend all their time hunting and farming.
People
learned how to spin bits of plants, reeds, horse hair, and bark into one
continuous strand, or yarn. Then they discovered how to take these long pieces
of yarn and weave them into fabric, just like they wove the grasses. People
began to look around for other fibers they could use to make yarn. The cotton,
wool, silk, and flax that they found are still the most common natural fibers
today. Other fibers, such as alpaca from llamas and angora from rabbits, were
discovered, but, even today, these fibers are too scarce and expensive to be
widely used.
Fiber
-> Spinning -> Yarn -> Woven/Knitted
-> Fabric
For thousands
of years the four natural fibers used by men are flax, wool, silk and cotton.
Man made fibers were introduced only at the beginning of the 20th
century. From ancient times to the middle of the 18th century.
Spinning and weaving were-done by hand.
Progress
in this area culminated in the industrial revolution, which was the start of
the factory system and mars production. From Ancient times colours have been
used in fabrics.
Dyestuff
from plants and insects were used until the synthetic dyes were discovered.
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