Question

Once, Paheli visited a tailor shop and brought home some cuttings of fabric to study their properties. She took two pieces and found that one of the pieces was shrinking when it was burnt with a candle. However the other did not shrink on burning. Can you help her to find out which of the two was cotton fabric and which silk fabric?

Answer 1

• The cloth that shrinks when burned with a candle is silk, whereas the other fabric is cotton since cotton does not shrink when burned.
• A natural protein fiber that may be utilized in textiles is silk.
• It is a significant animal fiber made from silkworms.
• Different kinds of silkworms create many sorts of silk.
• It may be distinguished based on texture and shine.
• Kosa, Tassar, Mooga, etc. are a few instances.
• They are created by several kinds of silkmoths.
• The mulberry silkmoth is one of the popular varieties.

A protein can be found in silk. As a result, the cotton cloth did not shrink but the silk fabric did.