Making of fabric

Firstly we obtain thread from plant. After applying some process on thread it forms a Yarn. Yarn is piece of fabric so with the help of this fabric workers made our different Dresses.

As we see a small, narrow thread to converted into a complete dress. But how does it make so simply? Let’s take a look on making of cotton plant.

By applying some process on fiber one by one it results a perfect fabric is made. This can be used by choice. These are several processes done on row fiber. i.e.

  • Ginning
  • Spinning
  • Weaving
  • Knitting

Let’s discuss several above processes step by step.

Ginning

The fruit of cotton plant produce a small cotton ball. When it is completely developed then Farmer pick this cotton ball by hand or nowadays we used machines also to do this work. But in generally farmers did this by hand.

After that separate this cotton from seed. This separation method is called as Ginning of cotton.

Ginning technique is useful to separate dusting from fresh white cotton.

Spinning

For making of fabrics firstly we need to make yarn. Converting of fibers to yarn called as spinning. Same technique is also used for wool. Spinning is not easy to done by hands. In the time of Mahatma Gandhi, He was started charkha (Spinning machine) to make yarn. This is fabric famous as Khadi. Spinning machine makes yarns to fabrics.

Nowadays this work is easy with spinning machine.

Weaving And Knitting

Weaving is used with two or more than two type of thread on same time like Mat (Chatai) with the help of this technique a yarn is produced with different colours of thread. Weaving of fabrics is Similar to weaving two sets of stripes of paper. Two sets of yarns are arranged together in different ways to get different-different patterns. This does on loom.

Knitting is done with one kind of fabric. It can be done by hand also like our wollen sweater

Today, we see sari, dhoti and frocks, like both stitched and unstitched material of fabric which is made by this several process. Fabrics are now available in large variety and also create a wide industry in market.

Question 1) State the Loom and their uses.

Answer- A loom is a machine used to weave clothes from yarn.

Question 2) How differentiate weaving and Knitting in simple words.

Answer- weaving means a process on yarn to convert in clothes. This process is in between two sets of yarn together to make fabric. Knitting means a technique to handle yarn to create a fabric. This method makes stitches on fabric by hand or by using machine.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *