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Earn 100

Take a piece of fabric. With the help of a magnifying lens, observe how the fabric is. Pull out threads one by one from the fabric. Observe these threads. What did you observe? Take one thread. Scratch its end. Observe it through a magnifying lens. Are you able to see the fine structure of the thread? 

Important Questions on How Fabrics are Made

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Take a needle and try to insert the thread into the eye of the needle. Can you? Isn't it difficult? Have you ever seen what people do to overcome this problem?
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Collect some natural and artificial fabrics and observe the following characteristics. Record your observations in the table given below.

S.No. Character Natural fabric Artificial fabric
1. Water absorbing nature    
2. Time taken to dry    
3. Smell while burning    
4. Result after burning    
5. Stretching capacity of yarn    
6. Smoothness    

(a) Which type of fabrics are smooth in nature?

(b) Which type of fabrics dry in a short time?

(c) Do you find any relation between smoothness and time to dry.

(d) Which fabric gives ash when they are burnt?

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Look at the Andhra Pradesh map and list out the places where cotton is grown.
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Have you seen gunny bags? Where do you see them?
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Do you know how jute yarn is made? Is this process similar to that of cotton or is there any difference?
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Pull out the threads from a gunny bag and observe under magnifying lens. Observe how the fibre looks like? Compare these fibres with cotton fibres.
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Fibre_____Fabric
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The process of removing seeds from cotton wool is called _____.