CBSE Science Class 7
Fibre to Fabric
Fibre to Fabric - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
Points To Remember:
- Some fibres are obtained from plants while some other fibres like wool and silk are obtained from animals
- Wool comes from yak, sheep, goat and some other animals
- In India, mostly sheep are reared for getting wool
- Sheep hair is sheared off from its body, scoured, sorted, dried, dyed, spun and woven to yield wool
- Yak wool is common in Tibet and Ladakh
- The fur on the body of camels is also used as wool
- The rearing of silkworms for obtaining silk is called sericulture
- Silk fibres are made of a protein
- Weaver weaves silk thread into silk clothe
