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FIBRES AND THEIR SOURCES

Fibre is the basic unit of fabric. Do you know what a fibre looks like? To understand, this take a small amount of cotton and pull out the smallest part from it. Study carefully. These may be long or short strands with a smooth structure that looks like white hair. Actually, these are fibres. A single fibre of cotton is difficult to locate but can be easily recognized in a mass of cotton. Now, consider the structure of wool fibres. You know these are hair of animals like sheep, goat, rabbit, camel etc. Sweaters, socks, gloves, scarves, shawls and coats etc., are made from these hair/fibres. You can check this by opening a thread pulled out from a pure woolen fabric, or knitting wool. What do you see? Similarly, there are many other fibres like - jute,flax, linen,silk,rayon(viscose,acetate),nylon,polyester,acrylic etc.... available to us, which can be used to make cloth. A fibre is a fine hair like strand and is the basic unit of textiles from which we make yarns and then the fabric...

Definition of textile

According to textile institute a textile was originally a woven fabric.  But the term textiles and the plural textiles are also applied to fibres, filaments,  yarn natural and manufactured and most popular product for which there are a principal raw material. The products includes fibre based products that are threads, coards, ropes and braid, woven, knit and non woven fabric, lace, nets and embroidery,  soft furnishing, hosiery, knitwear, floor coverings, technical, industrial and engineering textiles including geo and medical textiles.