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Across
1. cotton fibre without the seed
4. using needles to make fabric from wool
5. In summer, we like to wear only clothes made from this material.
7. long, shiny plant fibre, made into ropes and gunny bags
8. man made material
9. fine thread made from fibre
11. type of soil on which cotton grows well
14. Indian spinning wheel
15. another name for hairy covering of animals
18. process of changing fibre into yarn
20. process of separating cotton fibre from seed
23. long piece of cloth wound around the head by Indian men
24. cleaning, straightening and untwisting cotton fibres
26. soft, expensive, natural fabric
Down
1. cloth is woven on these
2. a common synthetic material
3. another word for fine threads
4. special name given to handspun, handwoven cotton cloth in India
5. fibre obtained from Kashmir goat
6. fibres from plants and animals
10. process of pulling apart raw cotton fibres and cleaning them
11. seed pods of cotton plant
12. animal source of angora wool
13. process of changing yarn to fabric
16. animal home made of fine silk threads
17. name for handmade cloth
19. unstitched cloth worn by Indian women
20. animal whose hairy coat gives us a very soft wool
21. parts of jute plants used to get fibres
22. fibre from husk of the coconut
25. machine used to separate cotton fibres from seeds
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