“THE JOURNEY OF COTTON TO CLOTH”
This summer I got a chance to overlook through one of India’s traditional occupations in my village. Weaving is one of the traditional occupations of India. The journey of a ball of cotton to a fancy dress we wear; involves the hard work of many people and is indeed an exciting journey to discover! It all begins with the cotton plant where it is plucked and processed in mills and then ends with beautiful dresses. The cotton mills take the challenge! It starts with a process called mixing where the cotton is all shuffled and mixed. Then the cotton travels through the blow room laps where the cotton and its seeds are separated. Next the cotton travels through the carding and drawing processes where they are converted into threads. The simplex process converts these threads into even thinner threads. The spinning and cone winding process groups these threads into bu