Textile Yarns

Process of Yarn Manufacturing

Classification of Yarns
Yarn Numbering
Sewing Threads
Prepared by
P.Lakshmana kanth
Senior Faculty IFTK
Process of Yarn Formation
Yarn is continuous strand which is made up of filaments
or fibers. It is used to make fabric/textiles of different
kinds.
Yarn formation methods were originally developed for
spinning of natural fibers including cotton, linen, wool
and silk.
Yarn is defined by the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) as A generic term for a continuous
strand of textile fiber, filament, or material suitable for
knitting, weaving to form a textile fabric. Yarn occurs in
the following forms.
Yarn forms
A number of fibers twisted together.
A number of filaments laid together without
twist.
A number of filaments laid together with
more or less twist.
A single mono filament. e.g. Silk
Yarn Manufacturing System
Yarn is defined as a linear assemblage of the fibers twisted
together. The process of making the yarn from a textile fiber is
called Spinning.
Spinning is the art of producing continuous, twisted Strands,
of a desire size, from fibrous materials.
In a broad sense, the term is used to include all the operations
through which cotton fibers are passed until they become
yarn.
Spinning includes all the processes required to prepare and
clean the fibers from the opening of the bale to the twisting
of the yarn in its preparation for the textile loom.