Maharashtra Board Class 4 EVS Chapter 10 Clothes PDF Download

Clothes

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Do the following activity and make a note of your observations.

Take a piece of cloth and observe it under a magnifying glass. What do you see?

Study a sack closely. Can you see how it was made?

Visit a tailor. For stitching clothes, the tailor cuts cloth. Take a piece of cut cloth that he does not need. What do you see at its edges?

You will see that cloth or fabric is made by intertwining threads together. Intertwining threads together is called weaving. Long threads are woven together to make cloth.

Where Does This Thread Come From?

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Take a wad of cotton wool. Pull at it from either side to make it as long as possible.

Lay it on your palm and pressing it with the other hand, roll it in one direction.

Note what happens.

You will see that the wad of cotton gets twisted into a long wick. Earlier, a spinning wheel was used to draw yarn from cotton. Nowadays, the same process is carried out on machines. Cloth is made of cotton yarn.

Besides Cotton, What Other Materials Can Be Used to Make Cloth?

Teacher's Note

Cloth is made by twisting cotton into thread. In India, many people use handlooms to make cloth at home, just like in villages.

Exam Trick

Remember: Weaving = threads twisted together. Just like when you braid your hair, threads are also twisted to make cloth.

Points to Remember

Cloth is made by intertwining threads together.
Weaving is the process of making cloth.
Cotton is twisted into yarn to make thread.
Machines are now used to make yarn from cotton.
Many materials can be used to make cloth.

Do You Know?

In order to win independence for our country, Mahatma Gandhi started a people's movement. He called upon them to use only those things that were produced in our country. For this purpose, he began to use a charkha or a spinning wheel to make thread. Charkha Mandals were then established nationwide which gave the message of using only 'swadeshi' goods.

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Visit a cloth shop. Discuss the following points with the owner and make notes.

What kinds of cloth does he stock?

Do the types of cloth have special names?

What material are they made of?

What is the original source of that material?

Which region has the cloth come from?

Ask the owner for samples of different kinds of cloth.

Make a table of the information you get from the shopkeeper as shown below.

You will have realized that cloth is made of different materials, for example, cotton, wool, jute, nylon, rayon, etc. Plants are the source of some of these materials. Some are from other sources.

Make a collection of the cloth samples obtained from the shopkeeper.

Use Your Brain Power

Nylon and rayon are made of a tar-like material. But, then, what is the source of tar?

Teacher's Note

Different cloth shops in India sell many types of cloth like cotton, silk, and wool. Each type comes from different places like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Himachal Pradesh.

Exam Trick

Remember: Cotton comes from plants. Wool comes from sheep. Keep these pairs together to remember which material comes from where.

Points to Remember

Cloth is made from many different materials.
Cotton, wool, and jute come from plants and animals.
Nylon and rayon are made from tar-like material.
Different regions in India make different types of cloth.
Cloth samples can be collected from cloth shops.

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Take clean water in a small bucket.

Soak the clothes you have worn all day in the bucket.

After an hour, take the clothes out of the bucket.

Before taking them out, wring them out tightly in the bucket itself.

Now observe the water in the bucket.

Is the water in the bucket still clean or do you see any change in the water?

You will see that when we use clothes, they become dirty.

Can You Tell?

Can you give some reasons why clothes get dirty?

Make a list of the reasons.

The list shows that our clothes become dirty for various reasons. That is why it is necessary to clean our clothes. Wearing clean clothes is a good habit. We must always have clean clothes in order to remain healthy and look neat and tidy.

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With what do we wash our clothes at home?

What is used in the laundry for washing clothes?

Which different types of soaps for washing clothes are sold in grocery shops?

Find the answers to the above questions and make a list.

You will realize that various types of soap are used to clean clothes, e.g. soap bars, detergent powder, liquid soap, etc.

What can you use to clean clothes if these substances are not available?

Teacher's Note

In our Indian homes, we use soap, detergent powder, and sometimes natural things like neem leaves to wash clothes. In villages, people use ash mixed with water to clean clothes.

Exam Trick

Remember: Soap = detergent powder = ash. All of these can clean clothes. Just like how you use different shampoos but they all clean your hair the same way.

Points to Remember

Clothes become dirty when we wear them.
We must wash clothes with soap or detergent.
Natural substances like ash can also clean clothes.
Clean clothes help us stay healthy.
Wearing clean clothes is a good habit.

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