How khadi is made?

How Khadi is made ?

Do you Know ? If not then you are in right place.

Khadi or khaddar has been manufacturing in India for many thousands of years. The Indian handicraft was popular across the world for its finest quality. You must have heard many stories of this fabric one of the stories is that khadi fabric used to go through a small ring due its finest quality of hand work and measure only in gold. India was the largest exporter of this fabric almost 300 years ago.

It is a versatile fabric comes from the natural fibres which hand spun, hand woven and not even use a single machine.  This fabric has many types such as cotton, silk and wool manufacture khadi dresses and each type has a unique manufacturing process.                   

 Here are few points you will understand that how khadi fabric is made given below –

• Khadi cotton fabric starts in farming field by planting cotton plants by the farmers.
• Plant produces cotton bolls. After plucking and separating seeds from cotton bolls they bring in next step. This process is called ginning.
• Ginned bolls convert into cotton fibres or puni after cleaning in KVIC (khadi and village industries commission).
• This puni or cotton fibres run in the spindle wheel called charkha and becomes thread. This process is called spinning.
• After dyeing and washing process thread runs in the weaving tool named krkha and becomes fabric. This is called weaving process.

What is thread count –

                                          You must know about these fabric secrets and can say yourself a smart shopper.  It helps to know about the quality of fabric. Thread count matters a lot in manufacturing of khadi fabric. There are no. of thread count like 50, 55, 60 etc. The more you go up in count fabric gets thinner and finer and the more you go down in count fabric gets thicker.

So now you might getting some questions about thread count like –

What thread count is best for cotton bed sheets?

Cotton bed sheets fabrics are mostly thick in texture and thread count are normally 24, 28 and 30. Towels and pillow covers have mostly same thread count as well.

So I hope you must have understood the unique process of making khadi fabric and feeling proud that Indians have this kind of skill to make a superior fabric without using single machine.