history sewing thread
HISTORY OF SEWING?????????????
Can somone tell me about the history of sewing
1. when did it started/originated
2. what did they use as their sewing equipments
a. needles
b. thread
c. fabric
d. scissors
3. other info
1. when did it started/originated
Pre-written history so it’s probably closely related to the onset of weaving maybe 10000 BCE give or take
2. what did they use as their sewing equipments
Best guess is a bone needle if any needle was used, bone or stone awls Think of primitive leatherworking equipment and weaving equipment for portable wooden and fiber looms.
a. needles
Bone awls at first then later bone awls until metalworking was advanced enough to start making metal needles with an eye.
b. thread
Leather straps, natural thinner yarns (fine strings to 2 or 3 ply threads) can be made from animal and plant fibers native to specific region (i.e., flax wool from shedding wild sheep to simpler, oxen and similar animals shed fur- but no hair (people or animal as it won’t hold the proper twist you need for yarn -it comes apart). Any and all fibrous plants have been sometime somewhere including mussel “hair” beards. It’s amazing really the ingenuity.
c. fabric
Leather and furs until the invention of weaving and knotting techniques. Knitting was discovered but inexplicably abandoned and had to he rediscovered around 800 AD. After Weaving discover twill plaids are the most common type/pattern. Every piece of ancient fabric we have seems to have a plaid. Few dyes were known ( they hadn’t been used extensively with knowledge on how to permanently fix the colors yet) so a plaid as opposed t a plain twill tabby would be a high status item due to its complexity of weaving and primitive control in looms. Looms would have been portable and upright with stone weights and counterweights and thread- are hard to keep proper tension and make really large pieces as no form of winding the warp for a long time- looms would have looked a bit like a modern tapestry loom with no shed or for an advanced loom a string pieces tied to a stick used to form the shed. Portable looms were a later development after ways to easily create an alternating patterns of sheds in the warp (refer to a weaving book, if you care). See thread entry above.
d. scissors
Bone knives, Stone knives before metalworking advanced enough to be common. Basically as little cutting was done as possible so as to not waste anything, so probably baggy stuff or lots of ties, belts, laces, and bone pins to control the fabric instead of scissors were invented by the Chinese. I don’t know when but it had to be after metalworking was advanced enough to have the concept of the rivet to hold the join.
3. other info
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