The Complete Technology Book on Textile Spinning, Weaving, Finishing and Printing

Textile manufacturing is a major industry. It is based in the conversion of three types of fibre into yarn, then fabric, then textiles. These are then fabricated into clothes or other artefacts. Cotton remains the most important natural fibre, so is treated in depth. There are many variable processes available at the spinning and fabric forming stages coupled with the complexities of the finishing and colouration processes to the production of wide ranges of products. There remains a large industry that uses hand techniques to achieve the same results. Spinning is a major industry, it is part of the textile manufacturing process where three types of fibre are converted into yarn, then fabric, then textiles. The textiles are then fabricated into clothes or other artefacts. There are three industrial processes available to spin yarn, and a handicraft community who use hand spinning techniques. In contrast to other major textile producing countries, mostly small scale, non integrated spinning, weaving, cloth finishing, and apparel enterprises, many of which use outdated technology, characterize Indian textile sector. Weaving is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. The method in which these threads are interwoven affects the characteristics of the cloth. Some, mostly larger firms operate in the organized sector where firms must comply with numerous government labour and tax regulations. Most firms, however, operate in the small scale unorganized sector where regulations are less stringent and more easily evaded. The textile industry occupies a unique place in our country. One of the earliest to come into existence in India, it accounts for 14% of the total Industrial production, contributes to nearly 20% of the total exports. Being the largest foreign exchange earner it accounts for more than 5 per cent of GDP. This book majorly deals with process preparatory to spinning, four methods of preparing vegetable fibres, a textile material (china grass or ramie), preparatory machines, the principles of designing and colouring, the principles of finishing, finishing processes and machines, mending, knotting and burling, textile chemicals, Indian demand, demand for bleaching agents, textile bleach formulation etc. The book is based on the latest technology involved in textile industry. It contains processes of textile spinning, weaving, finishing and printing. The book is very useful to the research scholars, technocrats, entrepreneurs, textile mill owners, their production and quality management officers etc.