Date wise development in Textiles

Timeline of clothing and textiles technology.

See also: History of clothing and textiles
See also: textile manufacturing
• pre-history – spindle used to create yarn from fibres.
• (unknown) – loom.
• c. 27000 BC – Impressions of textiles and basketry and nets left on little pieces of hard
clay.[1]
• c. 25000 BC – Venus figurines depicted with clothing.[1]
• c. 8000 BC – Evidence of flax cultivation in the Near East.[2]
• 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 knitting (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.[3] This requires much
greater skill than knitting in order to create a fine product.[4]
• c. 6000 BC – Evidence of woven textiles used to wrap the dead at Çatalhöyük in
Anatolia.[2]
• c. 5000 BC – Production of linen cloth in Ancient Egypt, along with other bast fibers
including rush, reed, palm, and papyrus.[5]
• 4200 BC – Date of Mesolithic examples of Naalebinding found in Denmark, marking
spread of technology to Northern Europe.[6]
• c. 3000 BC – Breeding of domesticated sheep with a wooly fleece rather than hair in the
Near East.[2]
• 200 BC to 200 AD – Approximate date of earliest evidence of "Needle Knitting" in Peru,
a form of Naalebinding that preceded local contact with the Spanish.[7]
• c. 200 AD – Earliest woodblock printing from China. Flowers in three colors on silk.[8]
• 247 AD – Dura-Europos, a Roman outpost, is destroyed. Excavations of the city
discovered early examples of naalebinding fabric.
• 298 AD – earliest attestation of a foot-powered loom with a hint the invention arose at
Tarsus[9]
• 500 to 1000 AD – spinning wheel in use in India..[citation needed]
• 500 AD -jia xie method for resist dyeing (usually silk) using wood blocks invented in
China. An upper and a lower block is made, with carved out compartments opening to the
back, fitted with plugs. The cloth, usually folded a number of times, is inserted and
clamped between the two blocks. By unplugging the different compartments and filling
them with dyes of different colors, a multi-colored pattern can be printed over quite a
large area of folded cloth.[8]
• 600 AD – Oldest samples of cloth printed by Woodblock printing from Egypt.
• 1000's AD – Finely decorated examples of cotton socks made by true knitting using
continuous thread appear in Egypt.[4]
• 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 stocking frame, the first but hand-operated weft knitting
machine.
• c. 1600 – The modern spinning wheel comes together with the addition of the treadle to
the flyer wheel.
• 1733 – John Kay patents the flying shuttle.
• 1738 – Lewis Paul patents the draw roller.
• 1758 – Jedediah Strutt adds a second set of needles to Lee's stocking frame thus creating
the rib frame.
• 1764 – James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the spinning jenny (patented 1770).
• 1767 – John Kay invents the spinning frame.
• 1768 – Josiah Crane invents the hand-operated warp knitting machine.
• 1769 – Richard Arkwright's water frame.
• 1769 – Samuel Wise solves the mechanization of W. Lee's stocking frame.
• 1779 – Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
• 1784 – Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
• 1791 – The Englishman Dawson solves the mechanization of the warp knitting machine.
• 1793 – Samuel Slater of Belper establishes the first successful cotton spinning mill in the
United States, at Pawtucket; beginnings of the "Rhode Island System"
• 1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
• 1798 – The Frenchman Decroix (or Decroise) patents the circular bearded needle knitting
machine.
• 1801 – Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard punched card loom.
• 1806 – Pierre Jeandeau patents the first latch needle (for using on knitting machine).
• 1813 – William Horrocks improves the power loom.
• 1814 – Paul Moody of the Boston Manufacturing Company builds the first power loom in
the United States; beginnings of the "Waltham System"
• 1823 - Associates of the late Francis Cabot Lowell of the Boston Manufacturing
Company begin operations at the Merrimack Manufacturing Company at East
Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In 1826, East Chelmsford becomes incorporated as the town
of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first factory city in the United States.
• 1828 – Paul Moody develops the leather belt and pulley power transmission system,
which would become the standard for U.S. mills.
• 1842 – Lancashire Loom developed by Bullough and Kenworthy, a semi automatic
Power loom.
• 1847 – William Mason Patents his "Mason self-acting" Mule.
• 1849 – Matthew Townsend patents the variant of latch needle which has been the most
widely used needle in weft knitting machines.
• 1856 – William Henry Perkin invents the first synthetic dye.
• 1856 – Jeacock of Leicester patented the tubular pipe compound needle.
• 1857 – Luke Barton introduces a self-acting narrowing mechanism on S. Wise's knitting
machine.
• 1857 – Arthur Paget patents a multi-head knitting machine called "Paget-machine".
• 1859 – Redgate invents a warp knitting machine working with vertical position latch
needles, called later as "Raschel machine" (named after the French actress Élisabeth
Félice Rachel).
• 1864 – William Cotton patents the straight bar knitting machine named after him
("Cotton machine").
• 1865 – The American Isaac Wixom Lamb patents the flat knitting machine using latch
needles.
• 1865 – Clay invents the double-headed latch needle which has enabled to create purl
stitch knitting.
• 1866 – The American Mac Nary patents the circular knitting machine (with vertical
needles) for fabrication of socks and stockings with heel and toe pouches.
• 1878 – Henry Griswold adds a second set of needles (horizontal needles) to the circular
knitting machine enabling knitting of rib fabrics as cuff for socks.
• 1881 – Pierre Durand invents the tubular pipe compound needle.
• 1892 – Cross, Bevan & Beadle invent Viscose.
• 1889 – Northrop Loom: Draper Corporation, First automatic bobbin changing weaving
loom placed in production. Over 700,000 would be sold worldwide.
• 1900 – Heinrich Stoll creates the flat bed purl knitting machine.
• 1910 – Spiers invents the circular bed purl knitting machine.
• c. 1920 – Hattersley loom developed by George Hattersley and Sons.
• 1949 – Heinrich Mauersberger invents the sewing-knitting technique and his "Malimo"
machine.
• 1953 – First commercial polyester fiber production by DuPont.
• 1954 – Fiber reactive dye invented.
• 1963 – Open-end spinning developed in Czechoslovakia.