Ancient Chinese textile and printing and dyeing technology has a very long history, as early as the primitive society, the ancients in order to adapt to climate change, already know local materials, the use of natural resources as raw materials for textile and printing, and manufacturing simple textile tools. Until today, our daily clothing, some daily necessities and works of art are textile and printing and dyeing technology products.
Chinese machine tool textile originated in 5000 years ago Neolithic spinning wheel and waist machine. Western Zhou Dynasty has a traditional performance of the simple mechanical reeling cars, spinning cars, looms have been widely used in the Han Dynasty jacquard machine, oblique loom, after the Tang Dynasty China's textile machinery is maturing, greatly promoting the development of the textile industry.
Textile raw materials diversification
Ancient and modern textile process and equipment development are in response to the design of textile raw materials, therefore, raw materials in the textile technology has an important position. Ancient world countries for the textile fibers are natural fibers, usually wool, linen, cotton) three kinds of short fibers, such as the Mediterranean region before the textile fibers used only for wool and linen; the Indian peninsula before the use of cotton. Ancient China in addition to the use of these three fibers, but also make extensive use of long fiber - silk.
Silk in all natural fibers is the best, the longest, most slender textile fibers, weaving a variety of complex pattern jacquard fabric. The extensive use of silk fiber, greatly promoted the ancient Chinese textile technology and textile machinery progress, so that silk production technology in ancient China the most characteristic and representative of the textile technology.
