Fiber and Fabrics around the world

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  • First fiber used
    34,000 BCE

    First fiber used

    earliest fiber material to be used was flax fiber from republic of Georgia
  • Creation of linen
    10,000 BCE

    Creation of linen

    Swiss lake dwellers of the stone age used flax and combined it with linen fabric, so basically the invention of lilen
  • Production of silk
    4640 BCE

    Production of silk

    Silk was founded, produced, and supn in china
  • cotton
    3000 BCE

    cotton

    cotton was spun and woven into cloth in Pakistan
  • First power loom

    First power loom

    the first power loom was invented by Edmund Cartwright
  • first semi synthetic fiber

    first semi synthetic fiber

    chardonnet silk a semi synthetic fiber was invented by Count Hilaire de Chardonnet but commercialized in 1891
  • First fully synthetic fiber

    First fully synthetic fiber

    Wallace Carothers and Julian Hill created Nylon
  • more fully synthetic fibers

    more fully synthetic fibers

    polyethylene terephthalate was invented by John Whinfield and James Dickson
  • rise of synthetic fibers

    rise of synthetic fibers

    synthetic fibers start to take over cotton and continue to evolve after