How are fabrics knitted and woven?

Answer 1

To be made into fabric, wool undergoes several processes. The fleece is sheared from the sheep, scoured, carded, combed and spun into yarn. The yarn is then woven on a loom to create wool fabric. There are two types of wool yarn that make different fabrics: woolen and worsted.

Answer 2

This is how woolen yarn is made. First the wool is harvested from the sheep by shearing. Shearing is necessary not only to collect the fleece, but to remove mats from the sheep which pull the skin and to keep them from over-heating in warm weather. The fleece is clipped from the sheep in one solid mass.

Each fleece is inspected and "skirted." Skirting is the removal of wool that cannot be used because it is too matted or too dirty to be processed into yarn.

The fleece is next picked and scoured. Picking is the process of picking out debris like hay and dried manure from the locks while also teasing the locks apart so water and soap can reach the hairs during washing. Scouring is a way to wash fleece to remove dirt as well as excess grease.

After scouring the fleece is allowed to air dry and is then carded or combed. These processes remove remaining tangles and align the individual hairs in preparation for spinning. Carded fiber can come in several forms depending on the process used to do the carding and the intended purpose for the yarn that is to be spun.

The carded wool is spun into "singles," or a single strand of twisted fibers. Individual singles can then be twisted together to form plies of two or more singles. Care must be taken to balance the yarn so that the spin put in while making the singles is matched by the spin put in (in the opposite direction) while plying.

Once spun and plied (if desired), the new yarn is wound on a niddy noddy to form hanks or coils of yarn where the coils are of a specific circumference. This allows the spinner to determine how many yards of yarn have been made. The hank is gently washed and hung with a weight hanging from the bottom to put slight tension in the yarn. The hank is allowed to air dry. Weighting the yarn as it dries is called "setting the twist," and makes the yarn behave more predictably with less kinking or untwisting.

Some yarns are sold in hanks which are wound into "cakes" when the hank is purchased at the yarn store, or it is wound down by the purchaser at home. The hank is held out in a coil on a tool called a swift which rotates as yarn is pulled from it to be wound. Mechanical ball or cake winders can be used to wind the yarn more quickly than by hand. These mechanical winders produce balls of yarn that are cylindrical in shape and are called "cakes." Yarn can be pulled from the center of the cake or from the outside as the knitter or crocheter chooses. The flat side keeps the yarn cake from rolling away.

Other fibres are also spun into yarns. They may be animal, plant or artificial fibres. The preparation varies with the source, but the subsequent treatment is much the same.

Answer 3

Woven fabrics are made of yarns interlaced in a regular order called a binding system, or weave. Weaving is the process of combining warp and weft components to make a woven structure. The components need neither be parallel to each other nor cross each other at right angles, but most woven structures are composed of two sets of components, both flexible and crossing at right angles.

Answer 4

Wool is made into fabric by a process were it is combed to get rid of knots and other imperfections; spun by a spindle, or some other type of device along those lines; and then is put into a roll for public use.

Answer 5

fabric manufactured by the interlooping of yarn is known as knitted fabric

Answer 6

it is made...............i dont know how it is made!!

Answer 7

Industrial looms and knitting machines.