ABOUT TEXTILES

TEXTILE HUB:

The term 'textile' is often used as an another word for clothes, but in reality textile refers to any object produced from fibres. Items as diverse as carpets, T-shirts, parachutes, hats, ropes, bullet-proof vests, bags, tents and lingerie are all products of the textile industries.

GARMENT INDUSTRY


Wearing apparel—whether it is made at home, by a tailor, or in a factory on an assembly line—undergoes three basic processes: cutting, sewing, and pressing. At one time all of these were done by hand; in some places they still are. In the garment industry as such, all production processes use highly sophisticated machinery, some of it computer-controlled...

HISTORY

OLDEST PRESERVE TEXTILES


The oldest preserved fragments of Neolithic/Eneolithic cloth from the Funnel Beaker culture at Rmiz-Kremela I, Cental Moravia, Czech Republic were discovered by Dr. Miroslav Šmíd. A preliminary materials analysis was performed by Dr.Kathryn Jakes, Professor, The Ohio State University, College of Human Ecolog