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Dec 4, 1300
24,000 BC- The begging of Ceramics
Archeologists have uncovered human-made ceramics that date back to at least 24,000 BC in Czechoslovakia and were in the form of animal and human figurines, slabs, and balls.These ceramics were made of animal fat and bone mixed with bone ash and a fine claylike material. After forming, the ceramics were fired at temperatures between 500-800°C in domed and horseshoe shaped kilns partially dug into the ground with loess walls. -
Aug 5, 1350
Pottery vessels for food and water 9000 or 10,000Bc
Almost 10,000 years later, as settled communities were established, tiles were manufactured in Mesopotamia and India. The first use of functional pottery vessels for storing water and food is thought to be around 9000 or 10,000 BC. Clay bricks were also made around the same time. -
Jul 7, 1380
Egyption dicovery of glazing 8000BC
Glass was believed to be discovered in Egypt around 8000 BC, when overheating of kilns produced a colored glaze on the pottery. Experts estimate that it was not until 1500 BC that glass was produced independently of ceramics and fashioned into separate items. -
Jan 5, 1500
First glass object made 1500 A.D.
Fast forward to the Middle Ages,when the metal industry was in its infancy. Furnaces at that time for melting the metal were constructed of natural materials. -
Dec 4, 1550
Synthetic refractories (temperature resistant) for furnaces used to make steel, glass, ceramics, cement
When synthetic materials with better resistance to high temperatures (called refractories) were developed in the 16th century, the industrial revolution was born. These refractories created the necessary conditions for melting metals and glass on an industrial scale, as well as for the manufacture of coke, cement, chemicals, and ceramics. -
Dec 1, 1561
Queen Elisabeth the 1st
Although there is no set date on when lace was invented we know that it was around in the 16th centurary as you can see in this painting of Queen Elizabeth I, in a high-profile 16th-Century laceophile, showing off one of her huge and highly fashionable ruffels. -
Mcqueen Collection
Heres a painting by Van Dyck of two males wearing lace around the neck and across the sholders aswell as full body armour. -
Louis XIV
In seventeenth-century France, lace became extremely important among Louis XIV's courtiers and, because of France's fashion dominance, thus all the courts of Europe. Courtiers wore flat band collars of heavy Venetian lace that showed off beautifully against the lavish fabrics then in fashion. French courtiers spent loads of money -
Painting of a lace maker
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The Industrail revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. -
Evoultion of machine lace
Despite the continued production of handmade laces, the real story of nineteenth-century lace is the development of fine machine laces that could compete with the handmade ones. The first lace machines, developed during the eighteenth century, actually produced fine net, which was then hand-embroidered to resemble lace. It was not until the early nineteenth century, when the jacquard was attached to the net machines, that patterns became possible. Improvements to the earliest lace machines, such -
Porcelain electrical insulation Incandescent light bulb Mid 1800's
Another major development occurred in the second half of the 19th century, when ceramic materials for electrical insulation were developed -
Crochet started as just the slip stitch.
The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant references “shepherd’s knitting” which is slip stitch crochet. -
Crochet
The earliest known recorded crochet patterns where printed in 1824, and yet there is a great deal of evidence pointing to the fact that woman particularly have been recording and sharing crochet patterns since well before then. -
First Crochet patterns
The first printed crochet patterns were from 1824 and were typically luxury patterns for purses of gold and silver silk thread. -
The great Irish femine.
Irish crochet lace becomes a way to make money in Ireland during The Great Irish Famine. -
Mercerization is invented.
This strengthens cotton making it more durable to crochet with. -
Patterns are published in England to reproduce Spanish needle lace.
This is the first time that we see patterns that include working through both loops (it was previously only through the back loop) and the first time that we see rows worked back and forth with turning (previously it was worked right to left and the yarn was cut off at the end of each row). This is starting to look like crochet as we know it today! -
Industrialization makes it much more affordable to produce crochet hooks.
Plus the Industrial Revolution means that more women have leisure time to fill. This results in more crochet work done as a hobby. -
Lace was a standard fashion elemnet.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, when lace became a standard fashion element and no longer a luxury good, a renewed interest in historic laces began. Those who could afford to started to collect historic laces and put together large collections of examples dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. -
LACE!
After the boom in the 1700s, lace lost popularity until the late 1800s.
As you can see the woman in this photo is dressed head to toe in lace. -
Queen Victoria
Queen victoria wearing lace in 1897/ -
Crochet buzz
From 1900 to 1930 women were also busy crocheting afghans, slumber rugs, traveling rugs, chaise lounge rugs, sleigh rugs, car rugs, cushions, coffee and teapot cozies and hot-water bottle covers. -
Crochet is now more detailed
1910 – 1920 – The Edwardian fashion style means that crochet work is now more detailed textured. -
Machine lace
During the 1920s and 1930s bolts of machine lace were produced and became a fashionable fabric out of which designers such as Gabrielle Chanel began to construct luxurious evening dresses. -
Photograph of a flapper girl.
A photo of a flapper girl in the 1920s, when the new lengh made the silhouette. -
Post WWII
After the war there was a resurgence in home crafts and crochet became alive again after it had been mostly forgotten by the general public. -
The rise of crochet in the 1960's
n the 1960s and 1970s crochet took off as a freeform means of expression that can be seen today in three-dimensional sculptures, articles of clothing, or rugs and tapestries that depict abstract and realistic designs and scenes. -
Crochet fashions hit a peak.
1960’s and 1970’s – We’ve all seen the granny square items from this time! This is also when freeform crochet begins to be popular. -
Lace becoming more feminine.
Lace developed into a purely feminine fabric that, because of advances in technology, became widely used in lingerie, evening wear, and as accessories. The invention of machine techniques, the increasing development of new hand techniques by which to create lacelike fabrics, such as embroidered nets, crochet, and tape lace, and decreasing expectations among consumers led to lace and lacelike fabrics' widespread availability. -
Still fashionable
Lace continues to enjoy a place in fashionable dress and especially in lingerie. Its light, delicate, feminine qualities make it a fashion perennial, even into the twenty-first century, when the September 2003 issue of Harper's Bazaar proclaimed lace "fashion's most romantic fabric" -
Crochet and social media merge.
2007 – Ravelry launches. Crochet and social media merge. By 2010 Ravelry had one million members.
