Textile industry is a traditional, and very old, has beenamidst almost all kinds of culture around the world from the very beginning,which almost prove the point that the history of human culture and the textilesare the same. A wide spectrum of processes is involved in the textile industry.Starting from fiber manufacturing to the final processing and garmenting stage,involves a lot of technologies and skill which leads to a quality conversion offibers into the ultra modern fashion or a high performance commodity in thecase of technical textiles.
The first major change in the textile industry took placesomewhere during the industrial revolution which lead to the advent of themachines in to the manufacturing processes in the textile industry. This majorbreakthrough lead to reduction in the work load of the labours and pronouncedthe dawn of machines in the textile industry. After that there have been a lotof developments in the various sectors of the textile industry, and thefollowing would through light on the latest developments that have taken placein the major pieces of textile industry namely spinning, weaving, knitting andprocessing.
Chitra SivaSankar is with Jaisar Spintex Pvt Ltd, Tamil Nadu
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