Fiber In Summer
Fiber In Summer
Author : Yogeshwar Chothani
Hello!! Everyone, how are you?? I hope you will be fit and good. So, now I am going to talk about an interesting topic which is grown in black soil. It is the cotton. Let’s go deep in this topic.
First let’s go to history of cotton. No one knows exactly how old cotton is. Scientists searching caves in Mexico found bits of cotton balls and pieces of cotton cloth that proved to be at least 7,000 years old. They also found that the cotton itself was much like that grown in America today.
In the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, cotton was being grown, spun and woven into cloth 3,000 years BC. At about the same time, natives of Egypt’s Nile valley were making and wearing cotton clothing.
Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe about 800 A.D. When Columbus discovered America in 1492, he found cotton growing in the Bahama Islands. By 1500, cotton was known generally throughout the world.
WHOOO!! This is amazing isn’t it. Let me tell you fun facts about cotton
- Cotton has been around a very long time.
· The cotton fibre is a made up cellulose which is a natural polymer.
· Most of the cotton grown is a variety called upland cotton.
· Cotton is stronger when it is wet.
· Egyptian, Pima and Sea Island cotton are the longest cotton fibre grown.
· Cotton is a sustainable fibre.
Let’s see how cotton is made into fibre.
Ginning
The cotton grabbed from the plants has seeds in it. The way toward expelling cotton seeds from cases is called ginning. Ginning was customarily done by hand. Presently a-days, machines are utilized as a part of ginning.
Spinning
The way toward making yarn from fiber is known as spinning. The crude cotton is provided to industry as parcels or bales.
Steps in making cotton yarn
- The crude cotton is extricated and cleaned; to evacuate straw & dried clears out.
- The cleaned cotton is then bolstered into a machine. The cotton fiber are brushed, fixed and changed over into a rope like structure called bit or silver.
- The fragment of cotton fiber is changed over into yarn by spinning while utilizing machines.
Weaving
Weaving is depicted as between binding, more often than not at right edges, of two sets of strings to frame fabric, carpet or different sorts of woven materials. Today this procedure is for the most part mechanized for large scale manufacturing. In it, two unmistakable sets of yarns called the twist & the filling or weft are intertwined with each other to frame a texture. The longwise yarns which keep running from the back to the front of the linger are known as the twist. The across yarns are the filling or weft. A linger is a gadget for holding the twist strings set up while the filling strings are woven through them.
WOW!!! It is really interesting. Yeah, it takes a lot of efforts to make cotton fabric. Next time I will come with an amazing interesting topic which is full of science. Be ready. Bye!!
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