enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Wool - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. Textile fiber from the hair of sheep or other mammals For other uses, see Wool (disambiguation). Wool before processing Unshorn Merino sheep Shorn sheep Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to ...

  3. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_clothing_and...

    Ancient Greek clothing consisted of lengths of wool or linen, generally rectangular and secured at the shoulders with ornamented pins called fibulae and belted with a sash. Typical garments were the peplos , a loose robe worn by women; the chlamys , a cloak worn by men; and the chiton , a tunic worn by both men and women.

  4. Yarn - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn

    The human production of yarn is known to have existed since the Stone Age and earlier prehistory, with ancient fiber materials developing from animal hides, to reeds, to early fabrics. Cotton, wool, and silk were the first materials for yarn, and textile trade contributed immensely to the ancient global economy. [3]

  5. Domestication of the sheep - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_sheep

    One chief difference between ancient sheep and modern breeds is the technique by which wool could be collected. Primitive sheep can be shorn, but many can have their wool plucked out by hand in a process called "rooing". Rooing helps to leave behind the coarse fibers called kemps which are still longer than the soft fleece. The fleece may also ...

  6. Clothing in the ancient world - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_the_ancient_world

    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 ...

  7. Cashmere wool - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashmere_wool

    In the United States, under the U.S. Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, as amended, (15 U. S. Code Section 68b(a)(6)), a wool or textile product may be labelled as containing cashmere only if the following criteria are met: such wool product is the fine (dehaired) undercoat fibers produced by a cashmere goat (Capra hircus laniger);

  8. Warp-weighted loom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp-weighted_loom

    The warp-weighted loom may have originated in the Neolithic period. The earliest evidence of warp-weighted looms comes from sites belonging to the StarĨevo culture in modern Serbia and Hungary from late Neolithic sites in Switzerland. [4] This loom was used in Ancient Greece, and spread north and west throughout Europe thereafter. [5]

  9. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacturing_by...

    Animal protein fibres include wool and silk. Man-made fibres (made by industrial processes) including nylon, polyester will be used in some hobbies and handicrafts and in the developed world. Almost all commercial textiles are produced by industrial methods. Textiles are still produced by pre-industrial processes in village communities in Asia ...