Timeline of clothing and textiles technology.

• pre-history - spindle used to create yarn from fibres
• (unknown) - loom
• 500 to 1000 AD - spinning wheel in use in India
• 1733 - John Kay patents the Flying Shuttle
• 1738 - Lewis Paul patents the draw roller
• 1764 - James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the Spinning Jenny (patented 1770)
• 1769 - Richard Arkwright's Water Frame.
• 1779 - Samuel Crompton invents the Spinning Mule .
• 1784 - Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
• 1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
• 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard punched card loom
• 1816 - Francis Cabot Lowell builds the first power loom in America.
• 1856 - William Perkin invents the first synthetic dye
• 1892 - Cross, Bevan & Beadle invent Viscose
• 1953 - First commercial Polyester fibre production by DuPont
• 1963 - Open-end spinning developed in Czechoslovakia

See also

• List of themed timelines
• Timeline of invention