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Prehistoric and ancient times. No one knows when people first made textiles. The earliest evidence of woolen textiles dates from about 6000 B.C. This evidence comes from what is now southern Turkey. Bits of linen from Egypt indicate that people there wove flax about 5000 B.C. Archaeologists have found Egyptian mummies from the 2500’s B.C. wrapped in linen as well made as that produced today.
By 3000 B.C., cotton was grown in the Indus River Valley in what are now Pakistan and western India. Cotton may also have been used for textiles in the Americas by this time. The Chinese began to cultivate silkworms about 2700 B.C. They developed special looms for silk filaments.