What is weaving?
One word for the crossing.
Weaving takes strips or threads over and under one another. They lock together and become one sheet.
↳ No glue is needed. The crossing holds.
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Clothes — How Things are Made · Class 5 EVS · Our Wondrous World
English 3 topics 66 leveled MCQs 36 flashcards 6 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Standing and running threads
Look for two directions.
↳ That pattern makes every woven thing.
The baya weaver's pouch
A bird got there first.
The male bird carries long grass blades to a branch. He pulls each one above and below the next until a hanging pouch is formed.
↳ Nature wove long before we did.
What is a fibre?
Smaller than a thread.
A fibre is a hair-thin piece of a material. Untwist a cotton thread and you can see the fibres it was made from.
↳ Many fibres twisted together give one thread.
Spinning by hand
Make thread with your fingers.
↳ The twist is what makes it strong.
Spinning
One word for the twisting.
Twisting fibres into thread is spinning. A charkha, or spinning wheel, does the same work far faster than fingers can.
↳ Charkha in, long even thread out.
📖 Smart notes
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1
Weaving — Threads that Cross
Weaving takes one set of threads over and under another until they hold as one sheet. Weaverbirds do it with grass; Indian weavers do it on looms.
- Weaving crosses two sets of threads: one stands up and down, the other runs side to side.
- The male baya weaver builds a hanging grass nest by taking each blade over and under.
- Mats, baskets and sheets are woven from bamboo, grass, jute, palm reeds and coconut fibre.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
From Fibre to Thread
Fibres are twisted into thread by spinning, on fingers or on a charkha. Cotton, wool and silk grow in nature; nylon and polyester are made by people.
- A fibre is a hair-thin piece; twisting many fibres together gives thread.
- Twisting fibres into thread is called spinning, and a charkha does it quickly.
- Khadi is hand-spun, hand-woven cloth, and it stood for a self-reliant India.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Stitch, Decorate and Reuse
A needle joins cloth and also decorates it. The tailorbird sews leaves, India has many embroidery styles, and old cloth is reused rather than thrown away.
- The tailorbird pokes holes along a leaf edge and pulls fibre through to sew a nest.
- In a running stitch the needle goes up and down through the cloth in a straight line.
- Two overlapping pieces of cloth are joined by stitching along the overlap.
~29 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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66 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Taking threads over and under one another until they hold together is called ____.
Beginner
A weaving
B painting
C melting
D printing
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weaving
That crossing of threads is exactly what weaving means.
Ira sees a grass pouch swinging from a thin branch. Which bird built it?
Beginner
A A crow that collects steel wire
B A parrot that lives inside tree holes
C The male baya weaver bird
D A duck that nests among reeds
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The male baya weaver bird
The male baya weaver weaves a hanging pouch out of grass blades.
In a woven mat, how do the two sets of threads lie?
Intermediate
A Both sets lie in the same direction
B One set up and down, the other across
C Both sets are rolled into balls
D They are tied into knots at one end
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One set up and down, the other across
Weaving needs two directions crossing each other.
The frame that holds the standing threads tight while cloth is woven is a ____.
Beginner
A pump
B kiln
C sieve
D loom
Show answer & explanation
loom
The loom holds the threads so the weaver can cross the others.
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