world’s oldest pants

world’s oldest pants

With the help of an expert weaver, archaeologists have unraveled the design secrets behind the world’s oldest pants. The 3,000-year-old wool trousers belonged to a man buried between 1000 and 1200 BCE in Western China. To make them, ancient weavers combined four different techniques to create a garment specially engineered for fighting on horseback, with flexibility in some places and sturdiness in others.

SoCal Fibershed: February Alpaca Adventures

SoCal Fibershed: February Alpaca Adventures

February focused on various ways to process & work with alpaca fiber & meeting folks who gather regularly to share various fiber projects each are working on. Here are links to February's Alpaca Adventures: