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Question
Trace your journey: Imagine you are a cotton boll. Write about your journey from the field to somebody’s wardrobe write about all the stages you had to pass through to become a garment.
Solution
Here are the following stages we had to pass through to become a garment:
- washing of fibres
- carding and combing of fibres to form a rope-like mass of fibres known as ‘slivers’
- spinning to make cotton yam
- weaving of the ‘grey cloth’ or undyed cloth
- bleaching of the 'grey cloth’
- dyeing and printing
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