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We wear different types of clothes according to different seasons. Our clothes are made of different materials. Touch some of your clothes and feel their texture. Each one will be different! The reason for different textures is that our clothes are made of different types of fibres. We get cotton from the cotton plant, linen from the flax plant, wool from sheep, and silk from silkworms. There are also synthetic fibres that are manufactured using chemicals. Isn’t that interesting? Let’s learn more about them. Clothes are made up of woven threads or yarn, which are made of fibres. These threads are woven or knitted to form fabric. Cotton bolls obtained from the cotton plant are converted into yarns by spinning. It is either done using a spinning wheel (charkha) or machines. Once the cotton i
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