حرفة الخياطة في العراق القديم

Abstract EN

The study profession is regarded an old one as the humans old, that was invented and practiced by the human being to supply what he needs of cloths since early ages of his life.

The dress was one of the basic living requirements besides the nourishment and housing for the human being.

Mostly he made his cloths in the stone age of animal leathers which were hunted by the human and he was wearing from herbs, staks of papyrus and the fibers of the tree cortex and he was sewing them as cloths by tying them using threads of sewing.

This profession had been known during the modern stone age in all the villages related to this age.

Then, it had been developed in the next ages by the evidence of discovering many numbers of the spinning disks in the remains of layers of that villages.

After, the human settled and learned, he began to cover his body with the tree branches and the nature inspired him to make use of what it contains of animal leathers from wool and fluff.

Yet, the human wasn't satisfied for being his cloths been made of these simple materials, so that, he decorated and variegated them in next stages.

A good group of the sewing equipments had been founded made from the bone such as the needles and awls in Tal-Al-Sawan area, that present proofs of practicing the sewing cloths by the resident of this residency by using leather, wool or hair that was spinned by spinning disks made of pottery or stone.

Weights of stone or pottery were founded related to primitive kinds of disk sewing proving the sewing of clothes and making them ready for dresses and other requirements.

As long as the clothes were part of the front appearance of human, Mesopotamia people interested in supplying the required raw material for making and sewing clothes since the old ages.