Factories! The cloth to make our clothes is made from thread. (Threads are thin pieces of twisted fibers.) The threads are woven together to make sheets of cloth. The cloth is then dyed and sometimes printed with patterns. At another factory, the cloth is cut and sewn to make clothes. Then the clothes go to stores, so we can walk in and buy them!
Natural fibers
Until a hundred years ago, most fibers came from plants or animals. This is a silkworm -it makes silk. Fibers from plants or animals are called natural fibers.
Funny, ha, ha!
When is a chair like a piece of material?
When it is satin!
Modern fibers
In the past 100 years people have discovered how to make new kinds of fibers, like polyester. These are called man made fibers. It's hard to imagine, but your bathing suit is probably made from oil, coal, or wood!
All dressed up
- Clothes have been worn for thousands of years. People first wore clothes to protect themselves against the weather, or to decorate themselves.
- Some of the earliest cloth was made out of tree bark.
