We dug around for the answer, and what we found was entirely unexpected: Sequins can be traced all the way back to the one and only King Tut, who was alive from 1341 to 1323 B.C. According to Smithsonian magazine, when Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922, his garments were covered in “gold sequin-like disks.” Historians ...

When did sequins become popular?

In the late 1960s, sequins began to be widely used by popular musicians like The Supremes. Sequins continued to be popular into the 1970s and early 1980s.

Who invented the first sequin?

LEONARDO DA VINCI INVENTED A SEQUIN MACHINE.

A prolific inventor, Leonardo da Vinci had ideas for many machines that he never got around to building. One of his sketches from the early 1480s is of a device that would use pulleys and what appear to be weights to make gold sequins.