Short answer type questions
Question 1. What are natural fibres? Give two examples.
Question 2. What do you understand by ginning? Why it is used?
Question 3. What are synthetic fibres?
Question 4. Define the term weaving.
Question 5. Define the term knitting.
Question 6. What is jute? Where it is mainly grown in India?
Question 7. How are natural fibres better than synthetic fibres?
Question 8. What do you mean by looms?
Question 9. Where were the cotton plants and flax plants cultivated in ancient India?
Long answer type questions
Question 1. List the steps involved in the preparation of fabric.
Question 2. Difference between natural fibres and synthetic fibres. Give two examples of each.
Question 3. Describe two plant fibres.
Question 4. How jute fibre is obtained from the jute plant?
Question 5. Explain the process of spinning.
Question 6. Explain the two main processes of making fabric from yarns.
Question 7. How fabrics were used when stitching was not known?
Question 8. What type of fabrics early Indians used to wear?