Spinning Cotton Yarn

  • Spinning: Spinning is the process of constructing yarn from fibres in which fibres from a huge heap of cotton wool are taken out and twisted which brings them together to form a yarn.
  • There are two major devices called Takli which is a hand spindle and Charkha which is also a hand-operated device, are used for spinning.
  • Charkha: Charkha is a machine on which yarn was spun directly from ginned cotton in olden days.
  • The spinning of yarn on a bigger scale is done using spinning machines following which these yarns are used to weave fabric.
  • Khadi was the term used to denote clothes which were made from homespun yarn.

  • On the left we can see a charkha and on the right we can see a simple takli.