Where do clothes come from? /

By: Butterworth, Christine [author.]Contributor(s): Gaggiotti, Lucia [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Walker Books and Subsidiaries, 2015Description: 26 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781406332964 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Clothing factories -- Juvenile literature | Clothing trade -- Juvenile literature | Non-Fiction 5+ | Science, Maths and TechnologyDDC classification: 687 Summary: Christine Butterworth looks at the processes involved in making the clothes we wear. She traces the journey of a bale of cotton from the field where it was harvested to the factories where it is cleaned, carded and combed, dyed, spun into thread, then woven into cloth and made into a pair of jeans. She also shows how wool is turned into a jumper, artificial fibres created for a football kit, a party dress made out of silk, plastic bottles recycled into a fleece, and how latex from rubber trees becomes a pair of wellies.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Main Library
Junior Nonfiction (JN) 		JN 677 .B988 2015 Available 34369
Total holds: 0

"Supports Key Stage 1 science"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Christine Butterworth looks at the processes involved in making the clothes we wear. She traces the journey of a bale of cotton from the field where it was harvested to the factories where it is cleaned, carded and combed, dyed, spun into thread, then woven into cloth and made into a pair of jeans. She also shows how wool is turned into a jumper, artificial fibres created for a football kit, a party dress made out of silk, plastic bottles recycled into a fleece, and how latex from rubber trees becomes a pair of wellies.