A bolt is a piece of cloth woven on a loom or created by a knitting machine, as it is processed, stored or marketed. Consequently, its dimensions are highly variableflexible and dependent upon the manufacturing, machinery, quantity, size, thickness and quality of the product. 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.Bolt Merriam Webster Dictionary.
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, representing the production.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
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.
Packing and trading Cloth merchant were marking the end of bolts with notations. 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.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
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For more information, see Pattern; Ready-made garment
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The length of a bolt varied according to the type of material measured. The length is usually either , but varies depending on the fabric being referred to; for example, a bolt of canvas is traditionally .
The width of a bolt is usually , but widths may include , , , , , , and , , , and . 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. It is also the standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: .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
See also
Piece goods Greige goods Fabric inspection Tanmono - In Japan case.
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