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Article: Cleaning Through The Millennia.(part 2)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- American Drycleaner
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
- Author:
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FABRICARE AND FINISHING ARE RELATIVELY MODERN LINES OF WORK. IN THE SECOND OF A TWO-PART LOOK AT THE ORIGINS OF THE INDUSTRY, WE TRACE THE TEXTILE-CARE TIMELINE FROM YI K TO TODAY.
Cleaning 1,000 years ago hadn't changed much since the start of the first millennium A.D. But as human culture spread throughout the world, clothing became a more important aspect of day-to-day life. And manufacturing and caring for clothing became valued skills.
Written accounts of the early years of this millennium yield little evidence of advancements in textile-cleansing processes. Viking graves in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Germany, however, reveal that ...