Many are Quite Well Preserved, and You can Actually Study Them Without Doing Them Any Harm

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When Gary Urton, professor of Anthropology at Harvard, was asked "Are they [quipus] fragile?", he answered, "some of them are, and you can't touch them – they would break or turn into dust.

Of course, any time you touch an ancient fabric like that, you're doing some damage, but these strings are generally quite durable."

Ruth Shady, a Peruvian embroidery digitizing archeologist, has discovered a quipu or perhaps proto-quipu believed to be around 5,000 years old in the coastal city of Caral.

It was in quite good condition, with "brown cotton strings wound around thin sticks", along with "a series of offerings, including mysterious fiber balls of different sizes wrapped in 'nets' and pristine reed baskets.

Piles of raw cotton – uncombed and containing seeds, though turned a dirty brown by the ages – and a ball of cotton thread" were also found preserved.

The good condition of these articles can be attributed to the arid condition of the 11,500 feet (3,500 metres) elevated location of Caral.

Most research and commercial e-textile digitizing projects are hybrids where electronic components embedded in the textile are connected to classical electronic devices or components.

Some examples are touch buttons that are constructed completely in textile forms by using conducting textile weaves, which are then connected to devices such as music players or LEDs that are mounted on woven conducting fiber networks to form displays.

Printed sensors for both physiological and environmental monitoring have been integrated into textiles including cotton, Gore-Tex, and neoprene.

The development of textile and clothing manufacture in prehistory has been the subject of a number of scholarly studies since the late 20th century.

These sources have helped to provide a coherent history of these prehistoric developments.

Evidence suggests that humans may have begun wearing clothing as far back as 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.