Bolt (cloth) explained

A bolt is a piece of cloth woven on a loom or created by a knitting machine, as it is processed, stored and/or marketed. Consequently, its dimensions are highly variableflexible and dependent upon the manufacturing, machinery, quantity, size, thickness and quality of the product.[1] It is a unit used in manufacturing, transport and inventory. It is also used as a descriptor for wallpaper, which uses different fabrication machinery. Being encompassing, it is by its nature a generic and ambiguous term of convenience and context, used to describe fabric and wallpaper.[2]

In modern production

Textile manufacturing is about converting fiber into yarn, yarn into fabric, and finally, the fabric into clothing and other useful products. At every stage, production activity is managed by unique batches. When it comes to fabric, a set of bolts or rolls forms a batch,[3] representing the production.[4]

Manufacturing

The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving, which turns the yarn into cloth. The machine used for weaving is the loom. and knitting is another method of cloth manufacturing.

Boltsare the rolls of cloth manufactured by a loom or knitting machine, which moves through subsequent processes of textile finishing.

Loom

Looms are equipped with devices that can measure the length of the bolt during manufacturing on the machine itself.[5]

Packing and trading

Cloth merchant were marking the end of bolts with notations.[6] This practice is continued in the industry to avoid mixing.

Garment manufacturing

After fabric inspection, the bolts are layered manually or fabric-spreading machines for relaxing and cutting with patterns.[7] [8]

For more information, see Pattern; Ready-made garment

Unit

The length of a bolt varied according to the type of material measured.[1] The length is usually either 40or, but varies depending on the fabric being referred to; for example, a bolt of canvas is traditionally .

The width of a bolt is usually 45inchesor60inchesin (orin),[9] but widths may include NaNinches, 39inches, 41inches, NaNinches, 50inches, NaNinches, NaNinches and 66inches, 72inches, 96inches, and 108inches. For more on breadths of bolts, see narrow cloth.

The word has been long-lived. For example, Herman Melville used it casually in Moby-Dick.[10] It is also the standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: .[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: How Many Yards On a Bolt of Fabric? (Fabric Bolt Dimensions) . sewingiscool.com . September 21, 2020 . Typically, a bolt of fabric contains anywhere between 30 and 100 yards of fabric. However, a lot also depends on the type [and thickness] of fabric in question. For example, a bolt of the canvas is generally 39 yards. Widths may include: 35–36 inches (890–910 mm) [up to] ... 108 inches (2,700 mm) . December 23, 2020.
  2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bolt Bolt
  3. Book: Rutnagur, Sorabji M.. The Indian Textile Journal. 2005. Business Press. 96.
  4. batch production is used in the textiles and clothing industry for producing fixed quantities of identical products, either for stock or order. For example, a designer-maker might make a batch.

    Textiles Technology

    Lesley Cresswell · 2004

    https://books.google.com/books?id=SmebK2GzU-cC

  5. Gubin . V. V. . Makarov . A. A. . May 1, 2012 . Device for measuring the length of a bolt of cloth woven on a loom . Fibre Chemistry . 44 . 1 . 59–60 . 10.1007/s10692-012-9398-4. 135637049 . 1573-8493.
  6. Book: Zhao, Gang. The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China. 1977. East Asian Research Center, Harvard University . 9780674200210 . 62.
  7. Large bolts of fabric are loaded on a moveable frame called a spreader . ... can create problems during spreading and must be left to relax overnight to assure accurate pattern size after cutting .

    Manufacturing Technology

    John R. Lindbeck, Molly W. Williams, Robert M. Wygant · 1990

    Page 219

  8. Book: Albrecht, Wilhelm . Nonwoven Fabrics: Raw Materials, Manufacture, Applications, Characteristics, Testing Processes. Fuchs. Hilmar. Kittelmann. Walter . 2006 . John Wiley & Sons . 9783527605316 . 471.
  9. Web site: How Wide Is a Bolt of Fabric? . . June 9, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131123204006/http://shopping.reference.com/how-wide-is-a-bolt-of-fabric . November 23, 2013.
  10. Book: Melville, Herman. 1851. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. 1st US. All Astir. Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close..
  11. 24 March 1774, Stamford Mercury - "Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods" https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000254/17740324/001/0001

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