History of Textile Industry

Ancient Chinese textile and dyeing technology has a very long history, as early as in the primitive society period, the ancient people, in order to adapt to the climate change, already know how to take materials from the ground, using natural resources as raw materials for textile and dyeing, as well as making simple textile tools. Until today, our daily clothes, certain daily necessities and works of art are all products of textile and dyeing technology.

Chinese machine textile originated from the spinning wheel and waist machine in the Neolithic period five thousand years ago. Western Zhou period with the traditional performance of simple machinery reeling car, spinning wheel, loom appeared one after another, the Han Dynasty, the widespread use of jacquard machine, slant loom, after the Tang Chinese textile machinery is becoming more and more perfect, greatly promoting the development of the textile industry.

Diversification of textile raw materials

The development of ancient and modern textile processes and equipment are designed in response to the textile raw materials, therefore, raw materials in textile technology has an important position. Ancient countries around the world for textile fibers are natural fibers, generally wool, hemp, cotton) three kinds of short fibers, such as the Mediterranean region previously used for textile fibers are only wool and flax; Indian Peninsula region previously used cotton. Ancient China in addition to the use of these three fibers, but also a large number of long fibers - silk.

Silk in all natural fibers is the most excellent, longest, most slender textile fibers, can weave a variety of complex patterned jacquard fabrics. The extensive use of silk fiber, greatly promoting the progress of ancient Chinese textile technology and textile machinery, so that the silk weaving production technology has become the most distinctive and representative of ancient China's textile technology.