Opinion | Where jeans and denim come from – the clues are in the names
The design, production, trade and use of denim span the globe, but the name, as with many fabrics, originates in the place it was once made. From the 16th century, the northwest Italian port city of Genoa crafted a type of twilled cloth, notable for yarns of cotton instead of linen, hemp or wool, and … Read more
