Textile Basics

Clothing is one of the basic needs for mankind. It protects the body from heat and cold, but also brings out one’s personality, enhances beauty, gives comfort and expresses the status of living. Thus the need to study about fiber, fabric and clothing.

What is Textile…. ?

  Textiles, generic term (from Latin texere - which means capable of being woven, “to weave”) originally applied to woven fabrics, but now also applied to natural and synthetic filaments, yarns, and threads as well as to the woven, knitted, felted, tufted, braided, bonded, knotted, and embroidered fabrics made from them .   The term textile fibers refers to fibers that can be spun into yarn or made into fabric.   

FIBERS

  Fibers are very small visible units from which fabrics are made by one process or another. Take a yarn or thread and untwist until it comes apart, or pull a single strand from an opened cotton ball or from a bunch of wool. Or   Fibers , which can be spun into yarn or made in to a fabric by interlacing or inter looping     

TEXTILE FIBERS 

• Introductions

• Classification of Textile Fibers

• Properties of Natural Fibers

• Properties of Man made Fibers

• New Generation Fibres

• Classification of Dyeing

• Dyeing machines - types