The History of Fabric Design and How Tastes Have Changed Through the Ages

The history of fabrics has been very prominent everand Brocade variety, which was also famous as "Gold
since. In pre-historic times, it was considered to be anSilk". Even China came into this business then by
artwork and a show of creativity. Now, fabrics are amaking the silk knit variety and the Brocade.
widespread business, an industry that is rapidlyAs the time passed by, India started to gain popularity
spreading. Before we mention how the tastes havein their materials. It dates back to the Indus Valley
changed throughout these years, we should first talkcivilization in which the people built designs that are still
about the history of fabrics and how it has evolvedpreserved in their museum. Apart from this, cotton
over time.started to gain popularity in the Middle East and South
History of fabrics dates back to the Pre-Islamic andEast Asia as the crop was being cultivated in
Islamic period. As mentioned, at that time, it wasincreased amounts here. Consequently, Cotton trade
considered to be an art, and then people startedalso started to European side too, where till then, the
bringing fabrics into trade and commerce. A significantonly source of fabric was silk. So, they overwhelmingly
amount of fabric was traded from Eastern and Middleaccepted the trading of cotton clothing.
Eastern sides to the Western geography. Silver andThe present era has shown a remarkable change in
gold wrapped threads and silk items were the catchthe fabric qualities. This is because increased exposure
of those times. Before mentioning about the silkof the people and increased attention towards textile
clothes, the silver and gold threads deserve attention.and fashion designing. Now, there are a high number of
These threads were being used with increasingcotton varieties while hardly anyone uses it today, and
frequency on clothes, so as to give them a final pictureits use is now limited to silk linen bed sheets and lingerie
of designing.purposes. Cotton, polyester, velvet, wool clothing, lawn
The history significantly moved on to the time, whereand chiffon fabrics are those that are being
Persians arose in the arena. At that time, fabric wasincreasingly used nowadays.
the representative symbol of an elite and lofty class.To conclude, it must be said that there is a lot of
Their specialized variety was silk, and this woven silkadvancement in the way tastes have changed
had a huge demand in market at that time. This isthroughout the ages. Many different types of fabrics,
because it gave a distillation of refinement that nopure and synthetic both have emerged. There are
other fabric gave. This is why from Australian side, themany people who are moving to the profession of
Merchants of Venice, had a particular interest in this silkfabric designing and that has given up new ideas,
and the trade was started in between them too. Thebecause of which, tastes have changed through all
silk had further three classes, namely simple fine, velvetthese ages.