Take you to understand the history of textile in ancient China

Since ancient times, China has always been a country of textile materials, with a long history of textile. The earliest date can be traced back to ancient times.

In order to adapt to the climate change, ancient people learned to use local materials, wholesale textile fabrics using natural resources as raw materials for textile and printing and dyeing, and manufacture simple textile tools. Up to now, our daily clothes, some articles of daily use and artworks are the products of textile and printing and dyeing technology.

Chinese machinery and tools textile originated from spinning wheels and waist machines in the Neolithic age 5,000 years ago. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, simple mechanical reeling machine, spinning wheel and loom with traditional properties appeared one after another. Jacquard machine and inclined loom were widely used in the Han Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, Chinese textile machinery became more and more perfect, which greatly promoted the development of textile industry.

Diversification of textile materials

The development of textile processes and equipment in ancient and modern times was designed in response to textile raw materials, so raw materials play an important role in textile technology. The fibers used for textile in the ancient world are all natural fibers, which are generally three kinds of short fibers (wool, hemp, cotton). For example, the fibers used for textile in the Mediterranean region were only wool and flax. Cotton used to be used in peninsular India. In ancient China, besides these three kinds of fibers, long fibers -- silk were also used in large quantities.

Silk is the best, longest and most delicate textile fiber among all natural fibers. It can weave all kinds of complicated jacquard fabrics with patterns. The extensive use of silk fiber greatly promoted the progress of textile technology and textile machinery in ancient China, thus making the production technology of silk fabric the most characteristic and representative textile technology in ancient China.