What Are Textiles?

Textiles is a term applied to natural and man-made fibres and filaments that may be spun into yarn or made into fabric by such processes as weaving and knitting or felting and bonding.
As a citizen of the new millennium, you utilise a vast array of textile items every day. So, to enable you to begin to understand the important role of textiles in your daily life, you need to imagine a world without textiles: at the moment you'd be sitting here naked.
Textile items that you utilise every day include clothing, underarm, shoes, bags, bath towels, bed sheets and blankets.…