Great numbers of fabrics are made by using yarns. Yarns play a very important role in determining the performance of fabrics of all types that serve every kind and purpose.
The yarn making process otherwise, known as ‘spinning’ is drawing and twisting a mass of fibres into a long, continuous thread. Yarn is the generic name given for an assemblage of fibres that is laid or twisted together.
Spinning is also one of the inventions of primitive man besides wheel and fire. Very crude yarns were produced in those days which were the products of hand spinning. Even today this type of spinning is seen in India for making wicks. Spinning progressed with the invention of small tools like ‘Takli’ and ‘Charkha’.
Takli:
Charkha:
Takli is a disc like device having a long rod with a small hook at the top. Charkha produces finer yarns than takli and even today charkha is the main tool of ‘Khadi’ industry.
Spinning was considered as only a hand method until the invention of spinning machinery in 18th century by an Englishman James Hargreaves. Later the machinery has taken so many shapes by several technicians and today the mills are highly equipped with highly technical automatic spinning frames which produce very fine yarns at higher speeds.
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