Textile fibres

Textile derived from Latin word texere which mean to weave and fibre creates the picture of a thin long hair like object. All fibres are not suitable for textile industry; it should possess sufficient length, fitness, strength and flexibility to be used for fabrics manufacturing.

Basic forms of textile fibres are filament and staple. Filament is a fibre of continuous length, example for natural filament is silk which has about 3000m of continuous twin filaments. Staple is a fibre of short length, example cotton which needs to be twisted to make them wear into continuous length of yarn.

Yarns consist of either staple fibres or filament fibres put together. Filament merely grouped in order to produce the thickness of required yarn, length is already there in the individual filament. Filament yarns are thin smooth and lustrous. Staple fibres have to be twisted to make them cohere into a continuous length of yarn. Twisting of fibre forces the fibre surfaces into contact with each other setting up friction between then which enable to resist more. Staple yarns are thicker fibrous and non lustrous.