The Process of Making Textiles Gathering the Fibers.
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The Process of Making Textiles
Gathering the Fibers
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Picking Cotton
Photographer unknown. ca. 1895. http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/panel9.html
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Cotton GinThe Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793The cotton gin was used to separate the cotton from the seeds.This invention caused the demand for cotton to increase.
Photo: Tom Murphy VII. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cotton_gin_EWM_2007.jpg
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Shearing SheepThe wool from the sheep is removed through shearing. The fibers are spun into yarn and knitted by hand or machine. They are made into sweaters to be worn in the winter for warmth.
Photo: Martin Pot (martybugs @ en.wikipedia) . http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheep_shearing.jpg
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Sheep Shearing Demonstration at Young’s Dairy Farm, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Video by David Duke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch v=53KoRxxr1jc
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FlaxThis fiber comes from a plant. It is used in the making of linen a lightweight material used for summer clothing.
Photo: Rasbak. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linum_usitatissimum_flax_products,_vlasproducten_%281%29.jpg
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HempThe plant is used in the making of rope and coarse clothing. Slave clothing was made from this material at Monticello and on other plantations.
Photo: Rasbak. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hennepvezel_Cannabis_sativa_fibre.jpg
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SilkThis fiber, derived from insect cocoons, is used in the manufacture of luxury items of clothing.
Photo: Gerd A. T. Müller. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombyx_mori_Cocon_02.jpg
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Processing the Fibers
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Carding Fibers
Photo: Joan Ruane. http://www.cottonspinning.com/spin/makePuni.html
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Spinning
Photo: Linda Spashett. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saxony_spinning_wheel_029.jpg
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Demonstration of spinning yarn on a spinning wheel. Video by videojugartscrafts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex1Atx1tQPk
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Spinning Jenny
Image from Popular Science Monthly, vol. 39, 1891.
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Hand Loom
Photo: Javier Carro. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Webmaschine_in_Tirolervolkskunstmuseum.JPG
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Flying Shuttle
Photo: Audrius Meskauskas. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shuttle_with_bobin_horizontal.jpg
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Mechanical Loom
Photo: Enfo. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17_Tinell,_exposici%C3%B3_Indianes,_teler_de_garrot.jpg
Ilustration (left) from the book La deuxième année de géographie, writted by Pierre Foncin, 1882.