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Spindle, Carder, Loom: Tools and Machines in the Textile Industry
Artists use their hands to create a masterpiece. A masterpiece is a mixture of creativity and labor. In the textile industry, artisans use techniques and tools to make yard goods. They study the art of looming, carding, and spindling. They operate small spindles and big looming machines. They learn every technique in looming, as well as every function of tools.
Artisans use three tools in making fabric. These are spindles, looms, and cards. Spindles are small spinning devices. They are used to make yarns. Most spindle products are made up of wood. Spindles have two parts. These are bottom base and spinning stick. The bottom base supports the spinning stick and holds the stick in place. The stick carries spun wool. They bind roving fibers during spinning.
Beginners find it difficult to spin roving on spindles. It takes a lot of time and effort before they learn how to spindle. Yarn ends are tied on the bottom base and spinning stick. Roving is connected to the end rope of the yarn. The spindle is continuously spun clockwise. It twirls individual threads together. After spindling, a roving becomes a yarn. Yarns are used for looming and weaving.
Looms are also used in weaving cloth. They bind threads and yarns together. They are one of the most important devices in textile-making. There are three classes of looms: countermarch, counterbalance, and jack-type. Countermarch looms are the fastest weaving machines. They combine the efficiency of counterbalance and jack-type looms. Machines like Ashford looms weave quietly and steadily; they are the most preferred kind of looms.
On the other hand, carder machines are used to flatten yarns and threads. They prepare rovings and fibers before spindling. They brush raw and washed fibers. Manufacturers such as Ashford drum carder have developed two types of carders. These are hand carders and drum carders. Hand carders are used in flattening small volumes of thread. Drum carders are used in large manufacturing factories. They brush thick piles of thread.
Artisans study the functions and uses of looms, carders, and spindles. Spindle tools like Ashford drop spindle are used in spinning small volumes of roving. In the textile industry, understanding of tools and techniques is a must.
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Why is it important for our country to keep mill sector loomage lower than power loom and hand loom ???
Power looms and handlooms are the tools of the poor folk of India with which they earn their livelihood.Most of the people own just one loom which is what helps put food on the family table(not that they can afford the luxury of owning a table even).It must be conceded that these people have over the years refined the looms and also developed their own designs keeping in mind the latest trends,colours et al.Modern technology has enabled imitating the work of these artisans and mass production rendering
the poor weavers idle without any means of
plying their trade in the face of stiff competition.
They are not educated enough to think of patenting their innovations and designs which are easily duplicated by the mill sector and even patented.Mass production results in lowering the market prices which results in
build up of inventories with the poor which they can ill afford.One could write a thesis on the subject of the ramifications of the slow demise of the power loom and the handloom sectors.
But suffice it to say that it behooves both the government and the mill owners to strike a balance which will aloow these poor artisans to ply their trade without fear of being rendered
obsolescent or without any means of earning a decent and dignified livelihood.
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