Basic Textile Terms of Spinning

Basic Textile Terms of Spinning:

Fiber: The fundamental component used in making textile yarns and fabrics. Fibers are fine substances with a high ratio of length to thickness. They can be either natural (e.g. cotton, wool, silk etc.) or synthetic (e.g. polyester, nylon, acrylic etc.).

Blow room Lap: The Loose strand, roughly parallel, untwisted fiber sheet produced in blow room.

Chute feed system: It is a system of feeding small tufts of fibers directly from blow room to a series of cards, arranged in a circuit through pneumatic pipe.

Sliver: The strand of loose, roughly parallel, untwisted fibers produced in Carding.

Roving: The soft strand of carded/combed fibres that has been twisted, attenuated, and freed of foreign matter, which is a feed material to spinning.

Yarn: A continuous strand of textile fibers that may be composed of endless filaments or shorter fibers twisted or otherwise held together.

Spinning: The process of making yarns from the textile fiber is called spinning. Spinning is the twisting together of drawn out strands of fibers to form yarn.