Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

See also List of themed timelines, Timeline of invention.

• 1733 - John Kay patents the flying shuttle loom
• 1764 - James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
• 1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
• 1801 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard punched card loom
• 1816 - Francis Cabot Lowell builds the first power loom in America.
• 1856 - William Perkin invents the first synthetic dye
• 1946 - Marion Donovan invents the first paper disposable diaper