Before this week, I didn’t know how textiles were made or what kind of techniques were used to make them. I especially didn’t know how important textiles were in Ancient China, and that they even served as a form of currency. They were so important that even taxes were sometimes collected in the form of…
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Textiles, types of cloth/woven fabric made of natural or synthetic fibers, vary in color, pattern, and durability. While simpler textiles were common and more numerous, the more complex textiles were hand-woven and expensive, made using a compound, gauze, satin, or twill weave. Fancier textiles were often woven into silk. Textiles were so essential that they…
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