A cotton shirt, before it reaches you, completes a long journey. Elaborate on this journey starting from cotton bolls.
The cotton shirt can be prepared by following steps:
i. The making of the cotton shirt is a long process. From cotton bolls, cotton is usually picked up from the plants in the fields by hand.
ii. And then fibers are separated from the seeds by combing. This process is called ginning.
iii. After this, the fibers of cotton are drawn out and twisted it then this brings the fibers together and a long thread is formed called yarn. This process is called spinning.
iv. And then in weaving process, cotton fabric is made by arranging two sets of cotton yarns. The weaving process is done on looms.
v. Now on sewing this cotton fabric by needle on sewing machine we get the cotton shirt.