What is the earliest textile tool?
This oblique loom already has a rack, the plane and the level of the seat into a fifty or sixty degrees of tilt. Application of the principle of leverage, with two treads were driven two clues, weaver with a long and a short pedal (rod), were driven
Spring and Autumn Warring States period has a greater improvement and development of looms. Jiangsu Sihong Cao Zhuang unearthed Han stone carved with "mother coffin diagram", the figure has oblique loom type. "Zhu Jing, carts" cloud "car carts, shaft of its empty" Zhu Xi "The Book of Songs" explained that "loom, weft wearers also, the axis of the people also" loops that shuttle, the axis is the main line axis
Pre-Qin's textile has been liberated from the "hand refers to the hook". ("Yellow Emperor" and "Huainanzi" records "hand refers to the hook" refers to a root yarn in turn connected to the same root on the stick, the other end is followed by another stick in the above
According to the "release name" said: "cloth out of the strands of the warp, to weft into the also." Flat cloth is by a number of longitudinal warp and horizontal weft intertwined with each other. We can see the original weaving method is "hand refers to the hook"
In 1975, Zhejiang Yuyao Hemudu Neolithic sites, unearthed spinning special, tubular bone needle, playing carpets and bone knife, wire rods and other textile tools. This is more than six thousand years ago has been the earliest original loom evidence. It is also the earliest original weaving tool found in the world so far.
