How is cotton, which comes as short strands of fibre from the plant, made into a continuous thread?

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How is cotton, which comes as short strands of fibre from the plant, made into a continuous thread?

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ELI5 –

Do you know how when you’re playing with play doh and you keep rolling clay on a surface and it gets longer, until it’s too thin and you need to add more clay to increase the length?

This is the same method for fibers. They take a bunch of fibers; overlap them and varied lengths, and “roll” them together (more accurate to say twist) to make a longer string, and add more and more to increase length.