Question

beating cotton or flax fibres to shreds,so as to form a fluffy mass is called______________.

Answer 1

Beating cotton or flax fibres to shreds, so as to form a fluffy mass is called Carding.

When fibres are cleaned, mixed with each other and removed or shredded to form a continuous web through a mechanical process, it is known as carding.

The fibers are made to pass between several layers placed at different intervals.

Answer 2

‘Beating cotton’ or ‘flax fibres to shreds’, so as to form a ‘fluffy mass’ is called Carding process.

Explanation:  

• The cotton or flax fibres are usually extracted from plant parts and these result in the formation of a fibre mass.  

• This fibre mass makes in useful to be used in the process of manufacturing. Now the carding result in the formation of a mass.

• These process results in the cleaning up of the cotton flax. The seeds are separated from the fibres.

• They are then centrifuged. Then they are heat treated. The mass so formed may be drawn into ‘threads’.