As a sub-item of the home textile industry, the towel industry has developed in China for many years. Towels and bedding are completely different. As a stable market, consumers usually pay little attention to towel products and are of low value. consumables. Because people's living habits and quality of life have not been significantly improved with economic income, a considerable number of consumers still have great differences in quality recognition, price, and purchase frequency when purchasing towel products.

The world's first towel was born in 1850 in the United Kingdom, with a history of more than 150 years.

The history of towels:

Towels have a long history of use. In the pre-Qin period, there was already a special textile name of "Pa". Its specific meaning is "handkerchief", which people use to wipe sweat and cleanse their faces. In the well-known Han Yuefu folk song "Peacock Flying South East", there is a description of "the girl is silent, covering her mouth with a handkerchief". The towel here obviously refers to the handkerchief that wipes away tears. The official name of the handkerchief comes from the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian, a famous court poet, once wrote the verse of "A pair of cicadas are drawn in the center". There is also a saying in the Song Dynasty that "wiping tears with a handkerchief". In ancient my country, women often used handkerchiefs as decorations or a symbolic symbol. In the most familiar classical masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions", the handkerchief has become a token for young men and women to express their feelings. When Daiyu burned the manuscript, in addition to burning all the poems expressing her feelings, there were also the old silk handkerchiefs that Baoyu gave her, which shows the weight of silk handkerchief in Daiyu's heart.

The formation of the handkerchief was also earlier than the towel. The earliest handkerchiefs in ancient Egypt were made of papyrus, which could wipe sweat and block the sun. The ancient Greeks used linen to make handkerchiefs and carried them around their waists when they went out. By the 18th century , Due to the prevalence of women's smearing of fat powder, the handkerchief was stained with colorful, which led to the derivation of the color handkerchief.

The modern microfiber cloth handkerchief is not only a product for cleansing the face, but also a portable accessory among Japanese women. Romantic Americans use handkerchiefs as tokens of love and give them to their sweethearts. British men put handkerchiefs in their suit pockets to show their gentility. French handkerchiefs are available in squares, rectangles, ovals, triangles and polygons in a variety of shapes. For the convenience of folding, King Louis XVI of France ordered in 1785: "Each side of the handkerchief is of equal length", and set the rule that the handkerchief is a square, which is still in use today.

The change from handkerchief to handkerchief began around the Han Dynasty. Different from the handkerchief, the towel appears as a male product. When men are engaged in labor and other activities, the sweating parts are not only limited to the face, but also the back, chest and other places. The small square towel can no longer meet the requirements, and the working hands are not convenient to grasp the towel. , so there is a long towel sewn with thick cloth, which can be freely placed on the shoulders, hung on the neck or at the waist when not in use. The towel hanging on the neck can also be used as a pad for a pole or a car loop to cushion the pressure and reduce the friction of the labor tools on the skin. This kind of scarf has been very fashionable since the Qin and Han dynasties. The "big belt" tied around the waist of the martial artist we see on the stage of Peking Opera is the artistic deformation of the scarf.

And let the towel pile ring become the prototype of the towel, which began to appear as early as the Western Han Dynasty. The "wool circle brocade" unearthed from the Han Tomb No. 1 Mawangdui in Changsha is the earliest warp pile fabric discovered. By the Song Dynasty, the silk weaving industry in Zhangzhou, Fujian, my country was very developed. Inspired by the Japanese imported "Japanese brocade", the ancients of our country used bamboo silk in a special sleeve, commonly known as "sword shell". Pull out the sword shell from the other end of the opening, and the remaining bamboo filaments form loops under the pressure of the weft yarn. This fabric terry is regular and plump, thick and soft, and has a high moisture absorption capacity, making it a model for future towels. Cotton was introduced into my country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the 23rd year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, cotton woven towels produced in Japan entered China. In addition to the already very popular warp and raising technology in my country, such as "full-color velvet", "sea goose velvet", "Zhang velvet" and other technologies, the towel industry has formed an independent industry. system.