the original basket from the rushes of a brook that perchance may have gurgled at her feet, or may have cut strips of skin from the animal her lord and master had slain, and plaited them into the original fabric that was the beginning of textiles," (Walton 16). These extreme processes would shape the norms we have today.

Woven fabric around the world

Beginning in Persia the first shawls and carpets were woven. In 2640 B.C. silk weaving became the norm in China. Egyptian mummies have been found in woven Nile linen cloth. In the

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