| Timeline of clothing and textiles technology. | | | | 1847 William Mason Patents his "Mason self-acting" |
| See also: History of clothing and textiles | | | | Mule. |
| See also: textile manufacturingpre-history spindle used | | | | 1849 Matthew Townsend patents the variant of latch |
| to create yarn from fibres. | | | | needle which has been the most widely used needle in |
| (unknown) loom.c. 27000 BC Impressions of textiles | | | | weft knitting machines. |
| and basketry and nets left on little pieces of hard | | | | 1856 William Henry Perkin invents the first synthetic |
| clay.c. 25000 BC Venus figurines depicted with | | | | dye. |
| clothing.c. 8000 BC Evidence of flax cultivation in the | | | | 1856 Jeacock of Leicester patented the tubular pipe |
| Near East.c. 6500 BC Approximate date of | | | | compound needle. |
| Naalebinding examples found in Nehal Hemar cave, | | | | 1857 Luke Barton introduces a self-acting narrowing |
| Israel. This technique, which uses short separate | | | | mechanism on S. Wise's knitting machine. |
| lengths of thread, predated the invention of knitting | | | | 1857 Arthur Paget patents a multi-head knitting |
| (with its continuous lengths of thread) and requires that | | | | machine called "Paget-machine". |
| all of the as-yet unused thread be pulled through the | | | | 1859 Redgate invents a warp knitting machine working |
| loop in the sewn material. This requires much greater | | | | with vertical position latch needles, called later as |
| skill than knitting in order to create a fine product.c. | | | | "Raschel machine" (named after the French actress |
| 6000 BC Evidence of woven textiles used to wrap | | | | lisabeth Flice Rachel). |
| the dead at atalhyk in Anatolia.c. 5000 BC Production | | | | 1864 William Cotton patents the straight bar knitting |
| of linen cloth in Ancient Egypt, along with other bast | | | | machine named after him ("Cotton machine"). |
| fibers including rush, reed, palm, and papyrus. | | | | 1865 The American Isaac Wixom Lamb patents the |
| 4200 BC Date of Mesolithic examples of Naalebinding | | | | flat knitting machine using latch needles. |
| found in Denmark, marking spread of technology to | | | | 1865 Clay invents the double-headed latch needle |
| Northern Europe.c. 3000 BC Breeding of domesticated | | | | which has enabled to create purl stitch knitting. |
| sheep with a wooly fleece rather than hair in the Near | | | | 1866 The American Mac Nary patents the circular |
| East. | | | | knitting machine (with vertical needles) for fabrication |
| 200 BC to 200 AD Approximate date of earliest | | | | of socks and stockings with heel and toe pouches. |
| evidence of "Needle Knitting" in Peru, a form of | | | | 1878 Henry Griswold adds a second set of needles |
| Naalebinding that preceded local contact with the | | | | (horizontal needles) to the circular knitting machine |
| Spanish.c. 200 AD Earliest woodblock printing from | | | | enabling knitting of rib fabrics as cuff for socks. |
| China. Flowers in three colors on silk. | | | | 1881 Pierre Durand invents the tubular pipe compound |
| 247 AD Dura-Europos, a Roman outpost, is destroyed. | | | | needle. |
| Excavations of the city discovered early examples of | | | | 1892 Cross, Bevan & Beadle invent Viscose. |
| naalebinding fabric. | | | | 1889 Northrop Loom: Draper Corporation, First |
| 298 AD earliest attestation of a foot-powered loom | | | | automatic bobbin changing weaving loom placed in |
| with a hint the invention arose at Tarsus | | | | production. Over 700,000 would be sold worldwide. |
| 500 to 1000 AD spinning wheel in use in India..[citation | | | | 1900 Heinrich Stoll creates the flat bed purl knitting |
| needed] | | | | machine. |
| 500 AD -jia xie method for resist dyeing (usually silk) | | | | 1910 Spiers invents the circular bed purl knitting |
| using wood blocks invented in China. An upper and a | | | | machine.c. 1920 Hattersley loom developed by George |
| lower block is made, with carved out compartments | | | | Hattersley and Sons. |
| opening to the back, fitted with plugs. The cloth, usually | | | | 1949 Heinrich Mauersberger invents the sewing-knitting |
| folded a number of times, is inserted and clamped | | | | technique and his "Malimo" machine. |
| between the two blocks. By unplugging the different | | | | 1953 First commercial polyester fiber production by |
| compartments and filling them with dyes of different | | | | DuPont. |
| colors, a multi-colored pattern can be printed over quite | | | | 1954 Fiber reactive dye invented. |
| a large area of folded cloth. | | | | 1963 Open-end spinning developed in Czechoslovakia. |
| 600 AD Oldest samples of cloth printed by | | | | See also |
| Woodblock printing from Egypt. | | | | Timeline of historic inventions |
| 1000's AD Finely decorated examples of cotton socks | | | | Notes |
| made by true knitting using continuous thread appear in | | | | ^ a b "Stone Age clothing more advanced than |
| Egypt. | | | | thought" by Gloria Chang, February 3, 2000 |
| 1275 Approximate date of a silk burial cushion knit in | | | | ^ a b c Cambridge History of Western Textiles p. |
| two colors found in the tomb of Spanish royalty. | | | | 39-47 |
| 1562 Date of first example of use of the purl stitch, | | | | ^ Barber 1991. |
| from a tomb in Toledo, Spain, which allows knitting of | | | | ^ a b Theaker 2006. |
| panels of material. Previously material had to be knitted | | | | ^ Cambridge History of Western Textiles p. 30-39 |
| in the round (in a tubular form) and cut it open. | | | | ^ Bender 1990. |
| 1589 William Lee invents stocking frame, the first but | | | | ^ Bennett & Bird 1960. |
| hand-operated weft knitting machine.c. 1600 The | | | | ^ a b Shelagh Vainker in Anne Farrer (ed), "Caves of |
| modern spinning wheel comes together with the | | | | the Thousand Buddhas" , 1990, British Museum |
| addition of the treadle to the flyer wheel. | | | | publications, ISBN 0-7141-1447-2 |
| 1733 John Kay patents the flying shuttle. | | | | ^ D.L.Carroll Dating the Foot-powered loom: the Coptic |
| 1738 Lewis Paul patents the draw roller. | | | | evidence American Journal of Archaeology 1985 vol. |
| 1758 Jedediah Strutt adds a second set of needles to | | | | 89; 168-73 |
| Lee's stocking frame thus creating the rib frame. | | | | References |
| 1764 James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the | | | | Barber, E. J. W.; Prehistoric Textiles: The Development |
| spinning jenny (patented 1770). | | | | of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special |
| 1767 John Kay invents the spinning frame. | | | | reference to the Aegean; Princeton University Press, |
| 1768 Josiah Crane invents the hand-operated warp | | | | Princeton, New Jersey, 1991; ISBN 0-691-03597-0 |
| knitting machine. | | | | (Barber 1991) |
| 1769 Richard Arkwright's water frame. | | | | Barber, Elizabeth Wayland, Women's Work: The First |
| 1769 Samuel Wise solves the mechanization of W. | | | | 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early |
| Lee's stocking frame. | | | | Times, W. W. Norton & Company, new edition, |
| 1779 Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule. | | | | 1995 (Barber 1995) |
| 1784 Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom. | | | | Bender Jrgensen, Lise; 'Stone-Age Textiles in North |
| 1791 The Englishman Dawson solves the | | | | Europe' in Textiles in Northern Archaeology, Textile |
| mechanization of the warp knitting machine. | | | | Symposium in York, North European Symposium for |
| 1793 Samuel Slater of Belper establishes the first | | | | Archaeological Textiles Monograph 3, NESAT III; |
| successful cotton spinning mill in the United States, at | | | | London Archetype Publications, 1990; ISBN |
| Pawtucket; beginnings of the "Rhode Island System" | | | | 1-873132-05-0. |
| 1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. | | | | Bennett, Wendell C. & Bird, Junius B.; Andean |
| 1798 The Frenchman Decroix (or Decroise) patents | | | | Culture History; Handbook Series No. 15; second and |
| the circular bearded needle knitting machine. | | | | revised edition; The American Museum of Natural |
| 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard | | | | History; A publication of the Anthropological Handbook |
| punched card loom. | | | | Fund, New York, 1960 |
| 1806 Pierre Jeandeau patents the first latch needle (for | | | | Jenkins, David, ed.: The Cambridge History of Western |
| using on knitting machine). | | | | Textiles, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, |
| 1813 William Horrocks improves the power loom. | | | | 2003, ISBN 0521341078 |
| 1814 Paul Moody of the Boston Manufacturing | | | | Theaker, Julie. 'History 101' in |
| Company builds the first power loom in the United | | | | Offermann Peter, Tausch-Marton, Harald: Grundlagen |
| States; beginnings of the "Waltham System" | | | | der Maschenwarentechnologie. VEB Fachbuchverlag, |
| 1823 - Associates of the late Francis Cabot Lowell of | | | | Leipzig, 1978 |
| the Boston Manufacturing Company begin operations | | | | Spencer, J. David: Knitting Technology. Pergamon |
| at the Merrimack Manufacturing Company at East | | | | Press, Oxford, 1983. ISBN 0 08-024763-6 |
| Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In 1826, East Chelmsford | | | | Modig, Niels.: Hosiery Machines. Meisenbach, Bamberg, |
| becomes incorporated as the town of Lowell, | | | | 1988. ISBN 3 87525 048 6v d e |
| Massachusetts, the first factory city in the United | | | | Textile arts |
| States. | | | | Fundamentals: |
| 1828 Paul Moody develops the leather belt and pulley | | | | Applique Crochet Dyeing Embroidery Fabric (textiles) |
| power transmission system, which would become the | | | | Felting Fiber Knitting Lace Nlebinding Needlework |
| standard for U.S. mills. | | | | Patchwork Passementerie Plying Quilting Rope Sewing |
| 1842 Lancashire Loom developed by Bullough and | | | | Spinning Tapestry Textile printing Weaving Yarn |
| Kenworthy, a semi automatic Power loom. | | | | History of... |