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Some of the Earliest Tools for Sewing Garments (Circa 28,000 BCE – 21,000 BCE)


Photocredit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution. (View Larger)

Bone and ivory needles found in  Xiaogushan, Liaoning Province, China, were used to sew warm, closely fitted garments.

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