Industrial revolution Textile industry

Question 1

textiles

Answer 1

An umbrella term that includes various fibre-based materials and their manufacture, including wool, cotton, linen, silk, hemp and newer, synthetic fibres.

Question 2

cotton

Answer 2

The white, fluffy substance that surrounds the seeds of a specific pant native to India and which is used in the production of a specific kind of textile.

Question 3

loom

Answer 3

An apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn.

Question 4

Yarn

Answer 4

In textiles, this refers to the fine, twisted and coiled lengths of fibre resulting from the spinning process.

Question 5

sliver(textiles)

Answer 5

In textiles (and especially cotton), this refers to the fluffy tubes of mostly unprocessed fibre following the carding process.

Question 6

Fabric

Answer 6

In textiles, this refers to the cloth produced after the weaving process where yarn is interwoven in a criss-cross pattern.

Question 7

carding, spinning, weaving

Answer 7

The three major processes in the manufacturing of textiles, especially cotton.

Question 8

the spinning jenny

Answer 8

A multi-spindle spinning frame, one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution, invented in 1764-1765 by James Hargreaves.

Question 9

the water frame

Answer 9

Invented by Richard Arkwright, it was a machine powered by water and which enabled the automatic production of spun textile, known as yarn.