← Back to the activity

Class 5 The World Around Us — Clothes — how things are made

Follow cotton from fibre to thread to cloth, tell natural fibres from synthetic ones, put the silk moth's life cycle in order, and place India's handloom and embroidery traditions.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.What is bandhani?

    • a) A cloth woven with gold thread along its border
    • b) A tie-dye in which small parts of the cloth are tied and dyed to make dots and circles
    • c) An embroidery worked with a needle and coloured thread
    • d) A quilt made by joining small leftover pieces together

  2. 2.Traditional weaving is done by hand on an instrument, and cloth made that way takes its name from it. What is the instrument called?

  3. 3.Fibres from a ball of cotton are twisted together until they hold as one thread. What is that twisting called?

  4. 4.Match each embroidery to the place the chapter says it originated from.

    • Chikankari
    • Kantha
    • Phulkari
    • Toda
    • Kashmiri
    • Khneng
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Kashmir
    • West Bengal, Odisha and Tripura
    • Punjab
    • Meghalaya
    • Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

  5. 5.A life cycle comes round again, so begin where the silk moth lays eggs and put the rest of the stages in order from there.

    • The caterpillars spin cocoons around themselves
    • The eggs hatch into tiny caterpillars
    • The caterpillars eat mulberry leaves and grow big
    • An adult moth comes out of the cocoon
    • The silk moth lays eggs

  6. 6.Sort each fibre into the group the chapter puts it in.

    Groups: Natural fibres · Synthetic fibres

    • Nylon
    • Cotton
    • Polyester
    • Wool
    • Terylene
    • Bamboo
    • Linen
    • Silk
    • Rayon

  7. 7.Where does silk come from?

    • a) The soft inner bark of the mulberry tree
    • b) The fine hair of a goat found in cold mountains
    • c) A plant grown for its long shiny fibres
    • d) The cocoon of a small insect called the silk moth

  8. 8.Match each handloom tradition to where it comes from.

    • Kanjeevaram
    • Pashmina
    • Ikat
    • Odisha and Gujarat
    • Kashmir
    • Tamil Nadu

Answer key — Class 5 The World Around Us — Clothes — how things are made

  1. 1. b) A tie-dye in which small parts of the cloth are tied and dyed to make dots and circles
  2. 2.
    • loom
    • a loom
    • handloom
    • a handloom
  3. 3.
    • spinning
    • to spin
  4. 4. Chikankari → Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; Kantha → West Bengal, Odisha and Tripura; Phulkari → Punjab; Toda → Tamil Nadu; Kashmiri → Kashmir; Khneng → Meghalaya
  5. 5. 1. The silk moth lays eggs 2. The eggs hatch into tiny caterpillars 3. The caterpillars eat mulberry leaves and grow big 4. The caterpillars spin cocoons around themselves 5. An adult moth comes out of the cocoon
  6. 6. Cotton → Natural fibres; Wool → Natural fibres; Silk → Natural fibres; Linen → Natural fibres; Bamboo → Natural fibres; Nylon → Synthetic fibres; Rayon → Synthetic fibres; Polyester → Synthetic fibres; Terylene → Synthetic fibres
  7. 7. d) The cocoon of a small insect called the silk moth
  8. 8. Kanjeevaram → Tamil Nadu; Pashmina → Kashmir; Ikat → Odisha and Gujarat