Going back even further in time, I saw a documentary on tv yesterday about a woolen child's hood that had been found in a peat bog on a Scottish island in the mid 19th century. Recent analysis has shown it to be around 2,000 years old, thus neolithic. It's so well preserved that it looks almost new. A weaving expert has made a replica and discovered that the original, which was made by a skilled weaver, comprised four different thicknesses of yarn, and the hood came from a different garment than the shoulders and tassles, so was probably an early example of recycling!