Elobrate the process of making cotton shirt from cotton balls
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Several steps - the cotton is planted, grows, ripens, and is harvested in huge trailers.
The trailers are taken to cotton gins where the seeds are removed and some of the worst plant debris (sticks, leaves, and cotton bolls).
That cotton is taken to factories called spinning mills to be cleaned some more and carded to get the fibers lined up so that it can be spun most efficiently & easily.
Thread is spun and either taken to another part of the same mill to be woven or to another factor that specializes in the weaving. For weaving, the warp threads are lined up on the loom that will take them up & down to lock in the crosswise threads (weft) and then those threads that go crosswise are run back & forth while the lengthwise threads are switched half up & half down to produce fabric.
Different patterns of which lengthwise threads go up or down at any particular pass of the crosswise threads will produce plain weave, twill weave, satin, brocade, or whatever is going to be woven on that loom at that time.
Fancier fabrics require different types of specialty looms - so velvet or velveteen (the cotton version of velvet) will be woven on different looms than cotton shirting, cotton thermal blankets, twill woven denim, or terry cloth for towels.
Many of these machines (the cotton gin to remove seeds, spinning machines, and mechanical looms that were powered by something besides a human sitting at them) were first mechanized to run on water power or steam power in the early 1800s - they were some of the first products of the Industrial Revolution - and the invention of faster ways to spin & weave produced a huge savings in labor that drove the price of fabric down...cheap clothing dates back to those very inventions.
Before the Industrial Revolution - all fabric was produced by hand from start to finish - making it very expensive, labor costs when a human being has to do every single step without any power behind it but human muscle? Each piece of fabric took weeks of work just to get the fiber clean, carded, rolled, and spun into thread before a loom could be threaded and set up to have someone sit at it for more weeks (months?) to produce fabric.
Which might still have to be dyed and any techniques to make the fabric more durable or more attractive before it was considered "finished goods" and would be ready to be turned into sails, clothing, or whatever...whether the finest silk, the coarsest burlap, or the heaviest wool.
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