List the steps taken by women to create the first textiles.

Sample Response: Textile Production • Gather fibers • Clean fibers • Comb and sort fibers • Spin fibers into threads • Weave the fibers using crude looms to make textiles

Answer

The steps taken by women to create the first textile were;

• Harvesting and making the wool clean

• Carding and spinning the wool to form threads

• Weaving the threads to produce a cloth

• Designing the cloth into the desired fashion and sewing the cloth into clothes

Explanation

The process applied in production of fabric follows these major steps; harvesting of the raw material, transforming of threads through spinning, joining threads to form fabric and finally processing the fabric (bleaching, treatment with chemicals to remove wax/oils). After this stage, the fabric is taken to textile and clothing companies.