Sooner or later, textile production will start all over the world. Around 5000 BC, textile production began in the cradle of all civilizations in the world. For example, residents of the Nile valley in North Africa use linen textiles; Residents in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins in China use hemp textiles; The inhabitants of the Indus Valley in South Asia and the people of the Inca Empire in South America all used cotton textiles. Asia Minor produces wool textiles. During this period, primitive spinning tools and primitive loom parts appeared in Hebei, Zhejiang, China, Indus Valley in South Asia and Egypt in North Africa. There are two kinds of spinning specialties: vertical and horizontal. In 550 BC, an ancient hand-spun image of hanging wool was found on a vase preserved in Greece, while the ancient technology of vertical spinning on the knee-leaning site was preserved by the ethnic minorities in southwest China. In the Andes of South America, horizontal rotation is specialized in legs. There are two kinds of original looms: hanging looms and flat looms. The two shafts of a flat knitting machine are fixed on the ground with four stakes, which is called a ground loom. In 4000 BC, an image of this kind of ground loom was painted on the pottery dish unearthed in Egypt. There is also a flat loom where the weaver presses his feet on the warp beam, and the original waist machine is the one that binds the warp beam to the waist. In 200 BC, the pottery bowls unearthed in Peru were painted with ancient original images of waist machines. The warp beam of the suspension loom hangs on it, and the warp naturally droops by its own weight or suspension hammer, and then weaves the weft yarn in turn. Ojebwe tribe in North America once used this loom to weave sacks, which is called vertical loom. Another kind of narrow loom with square or polygonal healds is called heald loom. This loom was found in the ruins of Egypt in 900 BC and Scandinavia in 200 BC. At first, the original loom used fingers to separate warp yarns directly, and later it was changed to use a stick to open cotton and beat up. This kind of stick evolved gradually, and there are differences in shape, thickness and function, that is, there is a division of labor among healds (or healds), warp splitting sticks and beating-up knives. Heald bars have also developed from one to several or dozens to meet the needs of weaving patterns. The position also moves from between the two groups of warp yarns to above the warp plane, and the heald ring wound on the rod hangs down and is sleeved on a group of warp yarns one by one to form a hanging heald bar. This kind of hanging heald bar with outer frame is the heald frame that was widely used later. This early style heald frame still remains on the traditional vertical looms in Guerrero, Mexico and Pueblo, southwest North America.
Humans used mineral pigments in the Paleolithic Age, such as cavemen in China and farmers in Kroma, Europe. Ancient colorful fabrics have been found in many parts of the world. China has used plant dyes such as madder, indigo, isatis indigotica and safflower since 3000 BC. India used madder and indigo in 2500 BC; Banlangen and safflower were used in Egypt in 2000 BC; Peruvian residents have long mastered the method of making cinnabar dye.
The textile products of Neolithic age are mainly short fiber fabrics. Such as linen fabrics in the Nile valley of North Africa; Cotton fabrics in Ganges and Indus basins in South Asia; Cotton-wool interwoven fabric of Paulian in South America, cotton-linen interwoven fabric of Maya; Wool fabrics of Caspian Sea, Aegean Sea and West Asia; Silk products in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins of China. On these fabrics, some use hand-painted patterns, some use woven patterns to form simple patterns, and some use embroidery. Some people think that the ancient inhabitants of the Caucasus even had primitive prints.