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String was used in prehistoric times to make fire, as part of a drilling tool called the [[bow drill]], which makes [[Firelighting#Friction|fire by friction]], as well as fishing lines, nets, clothing, shelter making materials, bow string, sutures, traps, [[twine]], [[Rope|cordage]], and countless other uses.<ref name="Hodge2003">{{cite book|author=Frederick Webb Hodge|title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmQgh7i-LdQC&pg=PA402|date=1 July 2003|publisher=Digital Scanning Inc|isbn=978-1-58218-748-8|pages=402–}}</ref> Bow drills were used in [[Mehrgarh]] between the 4th and 5th millennium BC. Similar drills were found in other parts of the [[Indus Valley civilization]] and [[Iran]] one millennium later. In Roman times, the same principle also was used widely in drilling for purposes of [[woodworking]]<ref name="Ulrich2007">{{cite book|author=Roger Bradley Ulrich|title=Roman Woodworking|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDh5yOgfnuoC&pg=PA30|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-10341-7|pages=30–}}</ref> and [[dentistry]].<ref name="GargGarg2012">{{cite book|author1=Nisha Garg|author2=Amit Garg|title=Textbook of Operative Dentistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WredzxNmeUMC&pg=PA103|date=30 December 2012|publisher=JP Medical Ltd|isbn=978-93-5025-939-9|pages=103–}}</ref>

Macramé comes from a 13th-century Arabic weavers’ word migramah meaning “fringe”. This refers to the decorative fringes on camels and horses which help, amongst other things, to keep the flies off the animal in the hot desert regions of northern Africa. One of the earliest recorded uses of macramé style knots as decoration appeared in the carvings of the Babylonians and Assyrians. Fringe-like plaiting and braiding adorned the costumes of the time and were captured in their stone statuary.

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