Fibre to Fabric: Shearing, Weaving

This is an interactive quiz on Fibre and Fabric.

It covers topics such as breeding, shearing and weaving.

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Which is the world’s best-known textile fibre brand?

Air Skin Wide Plus Fabrics Wool Dura Wool Mark

The eggs of silkworm are stored in which of the following things?

Glass container or box Stripe of clothes Wooden box of Mulberry tree Leather box

Paheli wanted to buy a gift made of animal fibre obtained without killing the animal. Which of the following would be the right gift for her to buy?

Woollen shawl Silk scarf Animal fur cap Leather jacket

What happened when wool fibre is burn

It produces a sizzling noise It smells like burning hair It curls away from the flame All the above

Which one of the following is not a breed of sheep?

Murrah Marwari Lohi Nali

What is the scientific name of mulberry tree?

Magnifera indica Morus alba Desmodium girence None of these

Which of the following is not a type of silk?

Mulberry silk Tassar silk Mooga silk Moth silk

Wool fibre cannot be obtained from which of the following?

Goat Llama Alpaca Moth

Which type of wool is common in Ladakh and Tibet?

Yak wool Sheep wool Angora wool Pashmina wool

Silk industry began in:

China India Japan Korea

Which of the following fibres are made into wool for sweaters?

Shorter fibres Longer fibres Both (a) and (b) None of these

Mostly sheep are reared for getting wool in:

China

India

Japan

Europe

The general process that takes place at a sheep shearing shed is:

Removal of fleece.

Separating hair of different textures.

Washing of sheep fibre to remove grease.

Rolling of sheep fibre into yam.

Selective breeding is a process of

Selecting the offspring with desired properties.

Selecting the parents with desired properties.

Selecting an area for breeding.

Selecting fine hair for good quality wool.

Silk fibre is obtained from:

Fleece of sheep

Cotton ball

Cocoon

Shiny jute stalk

The process of taking out threads from the cocoon for use as silk is called:

Reeling the silk

Reeling silk worms

Both of them

None of these

For obtaining silk, mothe are reared and their cocoons are collected to get:

Silk threads

Silkworms

Both silk threads and silk worms

None of these

They eat day and night and increase enormously in size are named as:

Caterpillars

Honey bee

Butterfly

None of these

Weavers weaves the silk thread into

Silk yarn

Silk fleece

Silk cloth

Silk cotton

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Fibre to Fabric: Shearing, Weaving
Questions: 19
Contributed by:
Jonathan James