Textile manufacturing

Jan 21, 2009 2 Replies

Textile manufacturing



Textile manufacturing is one of the oldest human industries. The oldest known textiles date back to about B.C. In order to make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving, which turns yarn into cloth. The machine used for weaving is the loom. For decoration, the process of coloring yarn or the finished material is dyeing. Typical textile processing includes stages yarn formation, fabric formation, wet processing, and fabrication. Visit

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Factoids from a weaver: textiles go back to about 27,000 BC, when the first impressions of a woven net were pressed into a clay pot. Looms go back to before 7000 BC, the production of silk goes back to before 2000 BC.

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