The histroy of Towel in China
Towel is also called handkerchief, handkerchief cultural origin has a long history, in the pre-Qin era had "towel ", this is the earliest handkerchief in China. Towel experienced a long history, until the Eastern Han Dynasty into a handkerchief, in short, towel is developed from handkerchief.
Towel is a common daily necessities in today's society. The raw materials of towel production are "textile cotton products and bamboo fiber fabric... There are thousands of years of cultural and historical records since today, silk has appeared in the Yellow River valley, and silk has been relatively developed in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. With the great economic development in the Warring States, Qin and Han dynasties, silk production reached a good stage. Handkerchief also emerged from the appearance of silk.
Related records the history of the towel is towel is began in France in 1811, first for silk production and use of cotton production in 1848, towel was born in Britain in 1850, 1864, industrial production in the United States and spread to Osaka, Japan in 1880, in 1894, Japan began to produce towels, name is iron anchor brand towels, and sold in China at that time, from at the beginning of the most simple monochrome flat maomao wipes today of jacquard, printing, twistless satin towel, cut pile towel, etc., and the towel production technology mature basically. It is the textile product with the shortest development time and the fastest development speed.
