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Exercise 4. Translate the following terms with their definitions and learn them.

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and rope making.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine.

 
 
 

 

Sewing - needlework on which you are working with needle and thread.

 
 

Crocheting-a kind of needlework in which loops of a thread or yarn are interwoven by means of a single hooked needle.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Knitting -is the name of the craft that involves two needles and yarn or thread. Loops in the yarn are manipulated with the needles to make a knitted fabric.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Weaving is a textile craft in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced to form a fabric or cloth. The threads which run lengthways are called the warp and the threads which run across from side to side are the weft or filling.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Machine embroidery is a process where a sewing or embroidery machine is used to create patterns on textiles.

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Exercise 5. Answer the following questions.

 

1. Is the wearing of clothing exclusively a human characteristic?

 
 

 



2. When did humans begin wearing clothes?

 
 

 



3. What do anthropologists think on this point?

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

4. When and where did textile appear?

 
 

 



5. What are textiles?

 
 

 



6. Have methods of textile production continually evolved from ancient times to the present day?

 
 
 
 

 

7. What is the origin of the term ‘Textile’?

 
 

 



8. What does textile refer to?

 
 

 



9. What are textiles formed by?

 
 

 



10. What threads are called warp?

 
 

 



11. What threads are called weft?

 
 
 

 

 


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