textile processing
Cloth production methods
Textile processing covers the steps that transform raw fibers into finished fabrics.
This includes cleaning, carding, spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing, printing, and finishing treatments like softening or waterproofing.
The term encompasses both industrial manufacturing and traditional craft methods: The museum exhibit traced textile processing from hand looms to automated factories.
- cardingPreparing fibers for spinning
- batikWax-resist fabric coloring
- calenderingRoller-smoothing process
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
felting · combing · knitting · scouring · tie-dyeing · tufting · softening · retting · twisting · dye bath · wastewater treatment · degumming · hackling · ginning · cotton gin · opening · waterproofing · bolt of cloth
- chloralkalichlor-alkali, chlor-alkali process, chlorine, sodium hydroxide, caustic soda
textile processinggarment manufacturing
Creating clothes commercially
sewing · tailoring · dressmaking · cotton picking · wool shearing