Textile production is the process of creating fabrics or cloth from raw materials like cotton, wool, or silk through spinning, weaving, knitting, and dyeing.
Think of textile production as baking a cake. You start with raw ingredients (cotton or wool), mix them together (spinning), shape it into something new (weaving/knitting), and finally add color or decorations (dyeing).
Spinning Jenny: This is an early spinning machine with multiple spindles. It revolutionized textile production during the Industrial Revolution by allowing one worker to spin many threads at once.
Cottage Industry: This refers to small-scale industries where goods are produced at home. Before industrialization, much of textile production happened this way.
Industrial Revolution: A period from 18th to 19th century marked by significant changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport that had profound effects on socioeconomic conditions. The textile industry played a key role in this transformation.
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