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2. Tarkhan dress - Wikipedia

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   The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]

3. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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   The earliest dyed flax fibers have been found in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia and date back to 36,000. [21] The 25,000-year-old Venus Figurine "Venus of Lespugue", found in southern France in the Pyrenees, depicts a cloth or twisted fiber skirt. Some other Western Europe figurines were adorned with basket hats or caps, belts ...

4. A prehistoric innovation marked a major shift in how humans ...

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   It’s likely that the hypothesis will never find a material confirmation, because the oldest clothes ever found are about 5,000 years old — textile materials and leather can’t be preserved ...

5. Clothing in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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   Evidence of ancient Indian clothing can be found in figurines, rock cut sculptures, cave paintings, and human art forms found in temples and monuments. These sculptures show human figures wearing clothes wrapped around the body, such as sari, turbans and dhoti. Upper classes of the society wore fine muslin and imported silk fabrics while the ...

6. Tartan found in the Scottish Highlands might be the world's ...

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   A piece of fabric discovered in a bog in the Scottish Highlands might be the oldest traditional tartan ever found, new research suggests.. The piece of material could be up to 500 years old ...

7. The world's oldest shoes? Sandals found in bat cave believed ...

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   Similar sandals found in Armenia are estimated to be 5,500 years old, while the shoes worn by “Ötzi the Iceman” — a prehistoric man found in Italy in 1991 — are dated to 5,300 years ago.

8. Areni-1 shoe - Wikipedia

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   The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave located in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia. [1] It is a one-piece leather-hide shoe, the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world known to contemporary researchers.

9. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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   1275 – Approximate date of a silk burial cushion knit in two colors found in the tomb of Spanish royalty. 1493 – The first available reference to lace is in a will by one of the ruling Milanese Sforza family. [10] 1550-1600 – Armazine and Bombazine introduced for the first time in United Kingdom. 1590 – First reference to Cambric fabric ...