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Vidhya Mitra

They learned how to use cotton fiber ( Macrame Store online in India ) for the manufacture of fabrics 7 thousand years ago. First, our ancestors used wild-growing cotton, and then they began to grow it on purpose. India is considered the birthplace of cotton, or rather, the Indian civilization, which was located on the territory of what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwestern India. It was from here that the spread of cotton began throughout Asia, and then Europe. However, representatives of the Indian civilization were not the only discoverers. Around the same time, the Indians of South America learned to process cotton, regardless of the Old World *. Cloth woven from the air" - this is the description given to cotton in the ancient Indian chronicles. The entire population of Asia wore cotton fabrics. Ancient craftsmen spun threads and weaved canvases with inimitable skill, and the abundance of natural dyes made it possible to obtain canvases of different colors. In Europe, cotton has not been known for a long time. The first mentions date back to the 5th century BC. Herodotus, in 445 BC, reported about the production of cotton in the valley of the Indus: “There are wild trees on which instead of fruits, wool grows, beauty and quality superior to wool obtained from sheep. Indians make clothes from this wood wool. "


The import of cotton to Europe began in the era of Alexander the Great (IV century BC). Europeans, accustomed to thick woolen and linen fabrics, highly appreciated the lightness, softness, and airiness of the new fabric( Macrame Store online in India ). The first rolls of cotton fabric were worth their weight in gold. Only the wealthiest and noblest townspeople could wear cotton clothes. It was not possible to grow aerial fiber in Europe due to climatic conditions. Therefore, the countries of Asia began to gradually increase the production of cotton for sale, and already in the Middle Ages, the export of fabric to Europe was one of the main sources of profit for some Asian states. At the end of the Middle Ages, cotton was quite widespread in Europe, but how this fabric is produced, the Europeans understood very vaguely. Many in all seriousness believed that in the East there are such trees on which small sheep grow. So, in German, the word "cotton" ("baumwolle") translates as wood wool (German Baum - wood, wolle - wool).

 

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