Mahesh Rajan

The textile industry is worth over $3 trillion worldwide.

The fabric manufacturing involves two major processes i.e. weaving and knitting. In weaving process, warp yarns are woven together with weft yarns on a loom to produce fabrics.
The knitted fabric is made by using knitting machines in such a way that the interconnected loops form a grid pattern.

The fabrics are then bleached, dyed, printed on, finished and printed before they are cut into final shapes and sizes of products to be marketed.

In garment manufacturing stage the fashion designer draws a sketch for creating a garment which is passed on to fashion designer who get it converted into garment patterns by creating detailed drawings.
Then the pattern is transferred to full-size paper or cloth pattern from where it directly gets transferred to the canvas machine for cutting purpose.

Full-size paper patterns are still used where there is no availability of computerized machinery in the industry for cutting purposes.
There are some types of textile manufacturing processes such as fabric manufacturing, yarn manufacturing, traditional manufacturing, etc.
Yarn is the key element for many textile products like oven mitt, cushion, apron, bed linen, and more.

Yarn Manufacturing – Yarn is a textile material that may be spun from natural or synthetic fibers. Yarn is produced on a spinning machine, (spinning wheel or a spinning mule), that draws out and stretches the fibers by the aid of several types of specialized machinery.

Most yarn is made from animal hair (wool or cashmere), as well as from synthetic fibers. Synthetic fibers are generally less desirable; they have greater manufacturing variability and less staple strength, will shrink when washed and tend to pill more easily.