Textile manufacturing

Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods such as clothing, household items, upholstery and various industrial products.^[1]

Different types of fibres are used to produce yarn. Cotton remains the most widely used and common natural fiber making up 90% of all-natural fibers used in the textile industry. People often use cotton clothing and accessories because of comfort, not limited to different weathers. There are many variable processes available at the spinning and fabric-forming stages coupled with the complexities of the finishing and colouration processes to the production of a wide range of products.

Cultivating and Harvesting

Preparatory Processes

Spinning

or Knitting

Weaving

Finishing

Marketing

: Oiled slivers are wound into laps, and placed in the circular comber. The worsted yarn gathers together to form a top. The shorter fibres or noils remain behind and are removed with a knife.

Combing

Angora

Clothing technology

Dref Friction Spinning

Fashion design

Glossary of textile manufacturing

Textile from algae

Textile design

Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

Wet processing engineering

Barfoot, J. R. (1840), , Barfoot's series of coloured lithographs of 1840 depicting the cotton manufacturing process., Spinning the Web, Manchester Libraries: Darton, p. 12, retrieved 11 February 2009

The Progress of Cotton

Collier, Ann M (1970), A Handbook of Textiles, Pergamon Press, p. 258, 978-0-08-018057-1

ISBN

Curtis, H P (1921), , Arthur Roberts Black Book., Manchester: Marsden & Company, Ltd. 1921, archived from the original on 6 October 2011, retrieved 11 January 2009

"Glossary of Textile Terms"

Gurr, Duncan; Hunt, Julian (1998), , Oldham Education & Leisure, ISBN 978-0-902809-46-8, archived from the original on 18 July 2011, retrieved 14 February 2009

The Cotton Mills of Oldham

(1993), Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press, p. 244, ISBN 978-0-521-45834-4, retrieved 11 January 2009

Hills, Richard Leslie

(1894), Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineering, John Heywood, Deansgate, Manchester, reprinted Elibron Classics, ISBN 978-1-4021-4558-2, retrieved 11 January 2009

Nasmith, Joseph

Roberts, A S (1921), , Arthur Roberts Black Book., One guy from Barlick-Book Transcription, archived from the original on 23 July 2011, retrieved 11 January 2009

"Arthur Robert's Engine List"

Descriptions and calculations for purchasing all cotton processing machines.

Cotton Year Book 1910 (Textile Mercury)

Descriptions and illustrations of principal machines.

1921 John Hetherington & Sons Catalogue

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