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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. [4] There are six stages to the manufacturing of cotton textiles: [5] Cultivating and Harvesting; Preparatory Processes; Spinning; Weaving or Knitting; Finishing; Marketing
Worldwide cotton production. The largest producers of cotton, as of 2017, are India and China, with annual production of about 18.53 million tonnes (4.09 × 10 10 lb) and 17.14 million tonnes (3.78 × 10 10 lb), respectively; most of this production is consumed by their respective textile industries. The largest exporters of raw cotton are the ...
The United States exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India. [1] Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and production occurs in the Southern United States and the Western United States, dominated by Texas, California, Arizona, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
The Progress of Cotton. Barfoot's series of coloured lithographs of 1840 depicting the cotton manufacturing process. Spinning the Web, Manchester Libraries: Darton. p. 12; Miller, Ian; Wild, Chris (2007). A & G Murray and the Cotton Mills of Ancoats. Lancaster: Oxford Archaeology North. ISBN 978-0-904220-46-9.
In textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. [1] This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered with "card clothing", a firm flexible material embedded with metal pins.
Cotton-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. [1] Such machinery can be dated back centuries. During the 18th and 19th centuries, as part of the Industrial Revolution cotton-spinning machinery was developed to bring mass production to the cotton industry.
Spinning mills in Ancoats, Manchester, England – representation of a mill-dominated townscape. A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, [1] an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system.
As a result, there were more than 20,000 spinning jennies in use by the time of his death. Also in 1764, Thorp Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill in the world was constructed at Royton, Lancashire, and was used for carding cotton. With the spinning and weaving process now mechanized, cotton mills cropped up all over the North West of ...