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  2. Vardhman Group of Companies - Wikipedia

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    The group is engaged in manufacturing and trading in Yarn and Processed Fabric, Sewing Thread, Acrylic fibre and Alloy steel. Vardhman group was incorporated in 1962 as Vardhman Spinning & General Mills (VSGML). The company was promoted by VS Oswal and RC Oswal initially and is now headed by S. P. Oswal Jain. [1]

  3. Textile industry in India - Wikipedia

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    Apart from these, there are several thousand small factories with three to ten looms.there is a committee established in India under 'textile committee act 1963'. this committee sets the quality standards for textiles manufactured for sale in the internal market as well as for export. India exports yarn to Japan, United States, United Kingdom ...

  4. Textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    The organic sector in India was worth $583 million. Genetically modified cotton, in 2007, occupied 43% of cotton growing areas in India. [6] Before mechanisation, cotton was harvested manually by farmers in India and by African slaves in America. In 2012 Uzbekistan was a major exporter of cotton and uses manual labour during the harvest. Human ...

  5. Spindle (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    The spun yarn is wound above the whorl. [18] In Icelandic Viking times, the people used a high whorl lap spindle to spin wool into yarn. The high whorl lap spindle has a whorl on top with a hook on the top and a long shaft like other supported spindles. Unlike the Navajo spindle, however, the spun yarn is wrapped around the lower end of the ...

  6. Spinning (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    The export of textiles was one of the sources of wealth for Meroë. [11] Spinning jenny. Hand spinning was an important cottage industry in medieval Europe, where the wool spinners (most often women and children) would provide enough yarn to service the needs of the men who operated the looms or to sell on in the putting-out system.

  7. Open-end spinning - Wikipedia

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    The first open-end machines in the United Kingdom were placed, under great secrecy, by Courtaulds into Maple Mill, Oldham in 1967. One disadvantage of open-end spinning is that it is limited to coarser counts, another is the structure of the yarn itself with fibres less in parallel compared to ring-spun yarns, for example, consequently cloth ...

  8. Grasim Industries - Wikipedia

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    Grasim Industries Limited is an Indian manufacturing company based in Mumbai.Since its inception in 1947 as a textile manufacturer, Grasim has diversified into textile raw materials like viscose staple fiber (VSF) and viscose filament yarn, chemicals [2] and insulators, along with cement and financial services through its subsidiaries UltraTech Cement and Aditya Birla Capital respectively.

  9. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Unlike other types of yarn balls, a skein allows you to access both ends of the yarn. [34] The yarn end in the inside of the skein is called a center pull. [34] One major complaint of center pull bullet skeins is that the inside yarn end is not easily found, and often is pulled out of the skein in a jumble of tangled yarn called "yarn barf".