The yarn is a raw material produced from the fibres, which is used for making fabrics or textiles and later used to make different clothing out of these fabrics. Cotton yarn is produced from a group of filament or staple fibres twisted together.
The Processing of cotton involves the following steps:
Preparatory Processes → Spinning → Weaving → Finishing.
How is Cotton manufactured from the Yarn?
Spinning is the crucial and significant stage of processing textile products. In the method of spinning the extracted fibres are made into yarn and are used in the production of textiles. The thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing, knitting, weaving, embroidery, etc.
Before spinning of cotton yarn, the obtained plant fibre has to go through several procedures to remove impurities such as blending, opening, cleaning, and drawing to obtain a final yarn of desired thickness.
Now let us discuss the cotton yarn spinning process.
Cotton Yarn Spinning
The spinning of the cotton yarn is the initial stage of textile product processing. The process of producing yarns from the extracted fibres is called spinning. In this process:
The strands of cotton fibres are twisted together to form yarn.
The yarn is placed on the rings of the spinning frame and is allowed to pass through several sets of rollers, which are rotating at a successively higher speed.
The yarn is rolled by the rollers and wound up on the desired bobbins.
This is the final stage of spinning the cotton yarn, in which drafting, twisting and winding of the yarn are all completed in one operation.
The bobbins filled with yarn are then removed from ring frames and used for processing for bleaching, weaving, etc.
Weaving of Cotton
Two sets of yarn are interlaced so that they cross each other at right angles. This process is accomplished either manually or by machines.
Finishing of Cotton
The woven cloth is converted into useful material, this is known as finishing. The textile material is treated with bleach and dyes to enhance its quality.
