The thin strands of thread that are made up of still thinner strands called FIBRES

There are two types of fibre –

1) natural fibre

The fibres of some fabric such as cotton jute silk and wool are obtained from plants and animals and are known as natural fibre.

Wool is the textile body obtained from sheep and certain other animals including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats qivuit from muskoxen angora from rabbits and other types of wool from camelids

WOOL

MARWARI

Nali sheep usually yield wool to make carpet and are found in Rajasthan and Punjab. A carpet is textile floor covering consisting of an upper layer of "pile" attached to a backing

Patanwadi sheep yield wool for making hosiery clothes. They are found in Gujarat

Rampur bushair sheep's usually yield brown fleece type of wool. They are found in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh

Lohi sheeps wool is of very good quality and is used for making woollen clothes. Lohi breed is mostly found in Rajasthan and Punjab

Bakharwal sheeps yield brown fleece type of and is us to make shawls. They are mostly found in Jammu and Kashmir.

Marwari sheeps yield very coarse wool. They are also found in Gujarat

Sheeps are provided with different types of food in winter and summers. In summers they eat minerals, corn, pulses and oil cake. In winter they eat leaves, dry fodder and grain

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Shearing is the first step in processing fibre into wool. It is the removal of the fleece of the sheep along with the thin layer of the skin. It is very important that sheeps are reared in warm weather usually spring they don’t need there warm coat to keep them warm. They are reared by a hand shear or by a mechanical shear

Scouring is the process of removing

dust particles and dirt from the

reared sheep wool. Scouring is done

in big tanks made separately for

scouring

Some part of the sheep coat have better hair than the

other this good quality wool from the sung and

shoulder of the sheep is used for clothing while the

more imperial quality comes from the lower leg and is

used to make rugs. The fleece is sorted according to its

texture and tile.

Silkworms are not worms actually but the larvae or

caterpillars which hatch from the egg of the silk

moth and insect in the lava stage the silkworm

grows in size and become a pupa. In the pupa stage

it weaves a net to hold it self. The net is made of

protein and gets hard by the contact of air and the

covering Is known as cocoon. The silk fibre is also

obtained by cocoon