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
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
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.
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
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
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