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Timeline of events relating to clothing and textile manufacturing technology
This timeline of clothing and textiles technology covers events relating to fiber and flexible woven material worn on the body. This includes the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, and manufacturing systems (technology).

c. 28000 BC – Sewing needles in use at Kostenki in Russia. c. 6500 BC – Approximate date of Naalebinding examples found in Nahal Hemar cave, Israel. This technique, which uses short separate lengths of thread, predated the invention of knitting (with its continuous lengths of thread) and requires that all of the as yet unused thread be pulled through the loop in the sewn material. This requires much greater skill than knitting in order to create a fine product. 4200 BC – Date of Mesolithic examples of Naalebinding found in Denmark, marking spread of technology to Northern Europe. 200 BC to 200 AD – Approximate date of earliest evidence of "Needle Knitting" in Peru, a form of Naalebinding that preceded local contact with the Spanish. 298 AD – Earliest attestation of a foot powered loom, with a hint that the invention arose at Tarsus.

500s – Handheld roller cotton gins invented in the Indian subcontinent. 500 1000 – Spinning wheel invented in the Indian subcontinent. 1000s – Finely decorated examples of cotton socks made by true knitting using continuous thread appear in Egypt. 1100s 1300s – Dual roller cotton gins appear in India and China. 1200s 1300s – The worm gear roller cotton gin invented in the Indian subcontinent during the early Delhi Sultanate era. 1400s 1500s – The incorporation of the crank handle in the cotton gin, first appeared in the Indian subcontinent some time during the late Delhi Sultanate or the early Mughal Empire. 1562 – Date of first example of use of the purl stitch, from a tomb in Toledo, Spain, which allows knitting of panels of material. Previously material had to be knitted in the round (in a tubular form) and cut open. 1589 – William Lee invents stocking frame, the first but hand operated weft knitting machine.

1889 – Northrop Loom: Draper Corporation, First automatic bobbin changing weaving loom placed in production. Over 700,000 would be sold worldwide. 1900 – Heinrich Stoll creates the flat bed purl knitting machine. 1910 – Spiers invents the circular bed purl knitting machine. c. 1920 – Hattersley loom developed by George Hattersley and Sons. 1924 – Celanese Corporation produces the first acetate fiber. 1928 – International Bureau of Standardization of Man Made Fibers founded. 1939 – US passes Wool Products Labeling Act, requiring truthful labeling of wool products according to origin. 1940 – Spectrophotometer invented, with impact on commercial textile dye processes. 1942 – First patent for fabric singeing awarded in US. 1949 – Heinrich Mauersberger invents the sewing knitting technique and his "Malimo" machine. 1955 – Research begins on multi phase weft insertion. Successful examples will not exist until the 80s and late 90s. 1956 – Du Pont Introduces a process for spinning sheaf yarn, a precursor to air jet spinning. c. 1960s. Existing machines become outfitted with computerized numeric control (CNC) systems, enabling more accurate and efficient actuation. 1960 – US passes Textile Fiber Products Identification Act, dealing with mandatory content disclosure in labelling, invoicing, and advertising of textile products. 1963 – Open end spinning developed in Czechoslovakia. 1965 – Dunlop Rubber awarded patent for polyurethane sheets fused together using ultrasonic vibrations, a precursor to fusing of coated textiles. 1968 – Control device for the knives of a pleating machine patented in Germany. 1979 – Murata manufacturing demonstrates air splicing of yarn. c. 1981 – Air jet spinning enters the US market. 1983 – Bonas Machine Company Ltd. presents the first computer controlled, electronic, Jacquard loom. 1988 – First US patent awarded for a "pick and place" robot.

The 20th century marked a new age of fashion production. The invention of the computer and robotics are the two most significant technological breakthroughs since the First Industrial Revolution. Digital technologies have introduced laser cutting, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics, allowing for the automation and digitization of many production processes. Computer aided design and manufacturing helped enhance fashion design and production, from fabric weaving decisions and digital printing to becoming fully automated. Computer technology allows more creative use of colors, shapes, and patterns with more detail.