[ELI5] How cloth is made? From string to fabric?
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Cloth starts as fiber, either in a bundle (like a cotton puff) or in a single strand (like synthetic nylon). If the fibers are bundled and organic (cotton puff), they’ll need to be straightened out and cleaned of anything other the fibers; for example, cotton has seeds scattered throughout the cotton puffs. After the fibers have been separated, they are spun into threads or yarn (think of the classic spinning wheel). The yarn is then woven in a cross-pattern to make a sheet of fabric. This can be done with a loom, a big frame that has a ton of threads going one way, while a little shuttle carries the cross-thread going the other way. Each time the shuttle crosses, every other thread on the frame switches position (up-down), so that they are wrapping around each cross-thread.
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