VELAMMAL VIDHYASHRAM AMBATTUR

GRADE 6
LESSON 4: FIBRE TO FABRIC

How did cloth originate?

TIMELINE ORIGIN OF CLOTH

100,000 years to 500,000 ● Early men clothing: animal skin, fur, leaves, grass, bones or
years ago shells.
● He draped, wrapped or tied around his body

40,000 years ● Sewing needles made of ivory or bone indicates he used

leather and fur garments.
● Evidence on man used cotton, wool, and silk for thousands of
years.

More than 2000 years ago ● People from Europe traded on silk.

19th century ● sewing machine which led to readymade clothes

● Invention of machines
● Large scale production of fabric

20th century ● Synthetic or artificial fibres came into existence.

● They are cheaper than natural fibres(wool, cotton, silk)
FIBRE: Fibres are thin, thread like structures twisted together to form a yarn.

FABRIC: A fabric is made by weaving fibres?

FIBRE TO FABRIC

→ →
Yarn split into fibres Yarn Fabric

DIFFERENT WAYS OF MAKING A FABRIC

SPINNING
Process of making the yarn from fibres
Oldest form done with charka
Twisting holds the fibre strong
Mahatma Gandhi believed charkha would help Indians to be self sufficient and achieve
Independence.
● KNITTING

Process of making garments by interlocking loops of wool

Need two long needles and long yarn of wool
● WEAVING
Two distinct set of yarns are interlocked at right angles to form a fabric it is called weaving.
If electricity operated it is called power loom
If hand operated called Handloom

FOUR TYPES OF WEAVE

PLAIN WEAVE TWILL WEAVE

SATIN WEAVE BASKET WEAVE

HOTS Questions

1. Name some clothes that are still used as an unstitched piece of cloth?

2. What are threads actually?

3. Differentiate fibre and fabric

4. Mention how spinning wheel helped in Indian Independence.

5. Why woven clothes are more stretchable than woven fabrics? Give some list of clothes that
are knitted?

6. Name some places in Tamil nadu famous for weaving?