Ancient Indian Textiles
The people of that civilization used homespun cotton for weaving their garments and used. The british east india company also traded in indian cotton and silk fabrics which included the famous dacca muslins.
Silk fabrics from south india were exported to indonesia during the 13th century.
Ancient indian textiles. Textiles of india in ancient times more ancient than the development of ceramics in the production of utilitarian objects is the activity of production of textiles early man began to make first hand weaving fibers. The periplus of the erythraean sea mentions mallow cloth muslins and coarse cottons. Cheaper and more accessible textiles were historically made of cotton which grows in central and northeastern india.
The earliest surviving indian cotton threads date to around 4000 bc and dyed fabrics from the region are documented as far back as 2500 bc. This proves that indian export of cotton textiles to egypt or the nile civilization in medieval times were to a large extent. Most of the extant textiles are dated after the seventeenth century because the monsoon climate has been very destructive.
It is known that indian textiles were traded in ancient times with china and indonesia as well as with the roman world. India s textiles were so central to its identity abroad. Port towns like masulipatnam and barygaza won fame for its production of muslins and fine cloth.
Indian textiles were traded from ancient times with china southeast asia and the roman empire. Indian textiles were so popular that most of the european trade companies began to trade in cotton and other textile materials. There is archaeological evidence of a cotton textile industry at mohenjo daroin the indusvalleyaround 3000 b c and a few fragments survive from much later periods.
Even in its rigid form with what made baskets also attach pieces of skins of animals using needles made of bones of animals in the paleolithic period to create different items. The remnants of the ancient indian clothing can be found in the figurines discovered from the sites. There was textile trade in india during the early centuries.
History of clothing in the indian subcontinent can be traced to the indus valley civilization or earlier. A block printed and resist dyed fabric whose origin is from gujarat was found in the tombs of fostat egypt. Indian textiles are generally produced from one of three materials.
Indian textiles exists mostly in literature and sculpture. India also exported printed cotton fabrics to european countries and the far east before the coming of the europeans to india. The roman merchant navy was eventually replaced by arab traders and they in their turn by the portuguese after vasco da gama arrived in india at the end of the 15th century.
The origin of indian textiles can be traced to the indus valley civilization as early as 5th millennium bc. Indians have mainly worn clothing made up of locally grown cotton india was one of the first places where cotton was cultivated and used even as early as 2500 bce during the harappan era.
