The Cloth thread
Fibre, leather, spinning, weaving, clothing and the first man-made fibre. 29 entries, in the order they are reached.
Phase 02 — Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit Year 1 (weeks 2–6)
| 02.13 | Bone awl and eyed needlesewing | year 1 |
| 02.15 | Scraped, brain-tanned and smoked hidessoft leather that survives rain | year 1 |
| 02.16 | Sewn hide clothing, shoes, bags and water skins | year 1 |
Phase 03 — Food security and the first camp Year 1
| 03.26 | Retting pit and cleaned bast fibrelong strong fibre for thread and rope | year 1 |
| 03.27 | Hand spindle and narrow loomthread and narrow cloth for bandages, straps and slings | year 1 |
Phase 08 — Farming, cloth, leather and household industry Years 6–18
| 08.01 | Bark-tanned leatherthick, lasting leather from tan pits | year 6 |
| 08.02 | Leather goodsboots, belts, straps, aprons, gloves, buckets | year 6 |
| 08.21 | Prepared fibresheep shears, flax combs, wool cards, cotton roller gin | year 11 |
| 08.22 | Drop spindle and spun yarn | year 11 |
| 08.23 | Spinning wheelten times faster than the spindle | year 12 |
| 08.24 | Treadle loomframe, heddles, reed and shuttle | year 12 |
| 08.25 | Woven clothlinen, wool, cotton, hemp canvas | year 12 |
| 08.26 | Fulled cloth and feltdense cloth; felt for pads, seals and polishing | year 12 |
| 08.27 | Dyes and alum mordant | year 13 |
| 08.28 | Sewn clothing, bedding, sacks and tents | year 13 |
| 08.30 | Oiled cloth and hide capesrain wear before rubber | year 13 |
| 08.47 | Cotton fieldthe main clothing fibre of the settlement | year 18 |
| 08.48 | Knittingstockings, caps and vests made from one thread with two needles | year 18 |
Phase 09 — Water, wind and mechanical power Years 14–22
| 09.25 | Flying-shuttle loomthe weaver throws the shuttle with a cord; cloth twice as wide, twice as fast | year 21 |
| 09.26 | Carding machinewire-toothed rollers comb raw fibre into an even fleece | year 21 |
| 09.27 | Water-powered spinning framemany spindles turned by the wheel; thread by the mile | year 21 |
| 09.28 | Saw-toothed cotton ginpulls the seed from cotton fifty times faster than fingers | year 22 |
| 09.29 | Power loomthe wheel throws the shuttle and beats up the cloth | year 22 |
Phase 11 — Glass, chemistry, petroleum, rubber and cement Years 24–32
| 11.72 | Aniline dyes ⚠bright fast colours for cloth, and the stains that show germs under the microscope | year 32 |
| 11.73 | Bleached white cloth and printed colours ⚠ | year 32 |
Phase 12 — Precision and machine tools Years 30–36
| 12.44 | Sewing machinea locked stitch from two threads, with the eye at the point of the needle | year 36 |
| 12.45 | Cloth millcarding, spinning and weaving under one roof on one line shaft | year 36 |
Phase 15 — Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid Years 43–50
| 15.42 | Artificial silk ⚠wood pulp dissolved and squirted through fine holes into acid; the first man-made fibre | year 50 |
Phase 20 — Epoxy and the materials for tape and screen Years 56–90
| 20.12 | Nylona fibre made from coal, air and water: stronger than silk | year 72 |