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My Favourite Outfit

My Favourite Outfit. By: Charlotte To 4JG. My Dress. Kids version of SIA air attendants’ Uniform Dressing up outfit for a play or costume party Wear a few times only ~mainly at home A gift from grandparents Special Features: Two-piece dress Special batik design by Pierre Balmain

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My Favourite Outfit

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  1. My Favourite Outfit By: Charlotte To 4JG

  2. My Dress • Kids version of SIA air attendants’ Uniform • Dressing up outfit for a play or costume party • Wear a few times only ~mainly at home • A gift from grandparents • Special Features: • Two-piece dress • Special batik design by Pierre Balmain • Burgundy Kebaya • Burgundy Sarung

  3. cotton Cotton is the main fabric of my dress. Facts about cotton • Cotton is a natural material from plant • It looks like fluffy white hair • Soak up water well • Burn when it is heated • Can be colour with dyes • Does not let electricity flow through it • Not attracted by magnet • Cotton fibres are thin but strong • Cotton thread is made of fibres twisted or spun together

  4. History of cotton • Harrapan people in India were the first people to grow cotton in 2500BC • Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe in about 800AD • The English word for cotton comes from the Arabic “qutun” • Planted in Florida in 1556 • Australia’s major cotton production is in Narrabri NSW • Today, the centre of the world’s cotton industry are America, India and China

  5. Growing and harvesting cotton • Grow anywhere with plenty of sunshine and low humidity • Stripper harvesters and spindle pickers are used to remove the entire cotton boll from the plant • Cotton boll is the seed pod of the cotton plant. Cotton fibres are attached to the seeds A cotton boll

  6. Ginning Old gin • Cotton bollsare sent to the gin where the lint are separated from the seeds • The lint will be dried out, cleaned and pressed into big bales A modern gin plant

  7. spinning • Bales of cotton lint are thrown into a bale-breaking machine • Then another machine will ‘card’ or comb the fibres so they lie the same way • Next fibres are stretched and twisted into thread, and wound on to reels

  8. From Thread to cloth The stretchiness of cotton cloth depends on the pattern of the threads in it • Knitting • Similar to hand knitting with stitches all connected horizontally • The material is stretchy as the threads arranged in loops • Weaving • The process of producing cloth by interlacing two sets of threads on a loom

  9. Decorating cotton cloth • Cotton cloth can be dyed with colours or printed with a design • Batik Art Design • A design is drawn on cloth with melted wax, when the cloth is dyed, the waxed bits do not take on the colour. • Modern Instant Batik method involves dyeing the painting or paint it and apply ‘fixers’. It saves time spent in endless dyeing and repeated waxing.

  10. References Used Cotton Renu Nagrath Woodbridge How We Use Cotton Chris Oxlade Batik And Tie-Dye Susie O’Reilly Materials : Cotton Chris Oxlade Cotton Gin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cotton_gin 10th June, 2010 History of Cotton http://historyforkids.org//learn/clothing/cotton.htm 13th June, 2010

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