Overview

When the first cave dwellers attempted to keep warm by covering themselves with animal skins, they likely recognized the advantage of joining several pelts together to form larger "garments." Eventually, one of them may have noticed a sliver of bone on the ground and thought to use it as an tool to string together multiple pelts.

Despite such speculation, the important fact is that from the dawn of humanity until the present day all fabric attachment processes have had the same thing in common: the needle. It has undergone many changes, not only in appearance, but through all the stages of iron, steel, and other metals that lend themselves to high levels of refinement.

Background

The needle is an indispensable tool that enables the production of highly sophisticated clothing for much of the civilized (no longer naked) world. However...