Didn’t we have an article years ago about Europeans using their own silk to make fabric before the Chinese silk arrived? If you could find that article...I’d really appreciate it.
Hmm... there’s not much fabric surviving from before 3000 BC, so I don’t know. Here’s a link from a file:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_790000/790569.stm