Processing of Cotton
| Bale Breaker | Blowing Room | |||||
| Willowing | ||||||
| Breaker Scutcher | Batting | |||||
| Finishing Scutcher | Lapping | |||||
| Carding | Carding Room | |||||
| Silver Lap | ||||||
| Combing | ||||||
| Drawing | ||||||
| Slubbing | ||||||
| Intermediate | ||||||
| Roving | Fine Roving | |||||
| Mule Spinning | - | Ring Spinning | Spinning | |||
| Reeling | Doubling | |||||
| Winding | Bundling | Bleaching | ||||
| Winding | ||||||
| Warping | Cabling | |||||
| Sizing/Slashing/Dressing | Gassing | |||||
| Weaving | Spooling | |||||
| Cloth | Yarn (Cheese)- - Bundle | Sewing Thread |
Cotton is the world's most important natural fibre. In the year 2007, the global yield was 25 million tons from 35 million hectares cultivated in more than 50 countries.
There are six stages
- Cultivating and Harvesting
- Preparatory Processes
- Spinning
- Weaving
- Finishing
- Marketing
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Famous quotes containing the word cotton:
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)