Roll of fabric
For other uses, see
Bolt
.
Rolls leaving the factory, 2014
Rolls on retail sale, 2019
Specialty cloth; velvet, cloth with sparkles, etc.
A
bolt
is a piece of
cloth
woven on a
loom
or created by a
knitting machine
,
[1]
as it is processed, stored and/or marketed. Consequently, its dimensions are highly variable – flexible and dependent upon the manufacturing, machinery, quantity, size, thickness and quality of the product.
[8]
It is a unit used in manufacturing, transport and inventory.
[9]
It is also used as a descriptor for wallpaper, which uses different fabrication machinery.
[A]
Being encompassing, it is by its nature a generic and ambiguous term of convenience and context, used to describe
fabric
and
wallpaper
.
[11]
In modern production
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]
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,
[12]
representing the
production
.
[13]
Manufacturing
[
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]
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.
Bolts
[B]
are the rolls of cloth manufactured by a loom or knitting machine, which moves through subsequent processes of
textile finishing
.
Loom
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]
Looms
are equipped with devices that can measure the length of the bolt during manufacturing on the machine itself.
[17]
Packing and trading
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]
Cloth merchant
were marking the end of bolts with notations.
[18]
This practice is continued in the
industry
to avoid mixing.
Garment manufacturing
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]
After fabric inspection, the bolts are layered manually or fabric-spreading machines for relaxing and cutting with
patterns
.
[19]
[20]
For more information
, see
Pattern
;
Ready-made garment
Unit
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]
The length of a bolt varied according to the type of material measured.
[8]
The length is usually either 40 or 100 yards (37 or 91 m), but varies depending on the fabric being referred to; for example, a bolt of
canvas
is traditionally 39 yards (36 m).
The width of a bolt is usually 45 or 60 inches (110 or 150 cm),
[22]
but widths may include 35?36 inches (89?91 cm), 39 inches (99 cm), 41 inches (100 cm), 44?45 inches (110?110 cm), 50 inches (130 cm), 52?54 inches (130?140 cm), 58?60 inches (150?150 cm) and 66 inches (170 cm), 72 inches (180 cm), 96 inches (240 cm), and 108 inches (270 cm). 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
.
[23]
It is also the standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards (36 m).
[24]
See also
[
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]
Look up
bolt
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
References
[
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]
Notes
[
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]
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Wallpaper is not necessarily fabric. It uses different fabrication machinery.
Wallpaper is packaged in single, double or triple bolts or rolls. Lengths and widths vary depending on the manufacturer and product. There are two competing systems: American and Euro (
Metric
). The former contains about 25% more than the latter. Each bolt contains a label that indicates the dye lot, pattern number or run number.
- ^
Encarta
opines that in textiles, it means "a rolled length of woven goods or wallpaper."
[14]
Bolt has been defined as “A bolt of cloth is a long wide piece of it that is wound into a roll round a piece of cardboard.”
[15]
Bolt "in the sense of bale" is a noun. E.g., "bolts of black silk" with synonyms that include:
amount
,
bale
,
packet
,
quantity
,
reel
, and
roll
.
[16]
The foregoing list only scratches the surface of synonyms for Bolt as it relates to fabrics.
[9]
Citations
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]
- ^
Tortora, Johnson & Merkel 2013
, p.
206
.
- ^
a
b
"How Many Yards On a Bolt of Fabric? (Fabric Bolt Dimensions)"
.
sewingiscool.com
. September 21, 2020
. Retrieved
December 23,
2020
.
Typically, a bolt of fabric contains anywhere between 30 and 100 yards of fabric. However, a lot also depends on the type [and thickness] of fabric in question. For example, a bolt of the canvas is generally 39 yards. Widths may include: 35?36 inches (890?910 mm) [up to] ... 108 inches (2,700 mm)
- ^
a
b
"Bolt"
.
Historical Thesaurus of English
(2nd ed.).
University of Glasgow
. 2009.
ISBN
9780199208999
.
OCLC
18409912
.
- ^
Bolt
Merriam Webster Dictionary
.
- ^
Rutnagur, Sorabji M. (2005).
The Indian Textile Journal
. Business Press. p. 96.
- ^
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
[1]
- ^
Encarta World English Dictionary
. New York:
St. Martin's Press
. 1999. p. 197.
- ^
"Bolt"
.
Collins Dictionary
(11th Complete & Unabridged ed.).
- ^
"Bolt"
.
Collins Thesaurus
.
- ^
Gubin, V. V.; Makarov, A. A. (May 1, 2012).
"Device for measuring the length of a bolt of cloth woven on a loom"
.
Fibre Chemistry
.
44
(1): 59?60.
doi
:
10.1007/s10692-012-9398-4
.
ISSN
1573-8493
.
S2CID
135637049
.
- ^
Zhao, Gang (1977).
The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China
. East Asian Research Center, Harvard University. p. 62.
ISBN
9780674200210
.
- ^
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
Page 219
- ^
Albrecht, Wilhelm; Fuchs, Hilmar; Kittelmann, Walter (2006).
Nonwoven Fabrics: Raw Materials, Manufacture, Applications, Characteristics, Testing Processes
. John Wiley & Sons. p. 471.
ISBN
9783527605316
.
- ^
"How Wide Is a Bolt of Fabric?"
.
Reference.com
. Archived from
the original
on November 23, 2013
. Retrieved
June 9,
2013
.
- ^
Melville, Herman (1851).
"All Astir"
.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
(1st US ed.).
Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close.
- ^
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
(subscription required)
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ISBN
9781498784719
.
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Environmental Aspects of Textile Dyeing
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Elsevier
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ISBN
9781845693091
.
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The Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words: Over 10,000 Common and Confusing Words Explained
(Paperback).
Skyhorse
. p. 361.
ISBN
9781602393394
.
A measure of length, usually for fabric. A bolt of wallpaper equals 16 yd and a bolt of fabric equals 40 yd.
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.
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.
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.
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a commercial unit of length or area used to measure finished cloth. Generally speaking, one bolt represents a strip of cloth 100 yards (91.44 meters) long, but the width varies according to the fabric. Cotton bolts are traditionally 42 inches (1.067 meters) wide and wool bolts are usually 60 inches (1.524 meters) wide. Thus a bolt of cotton is 116.667 square yards (97.566 m2) and a bolt of wool is 166.667 square yards (139.355 m2).
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.
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.
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9780081012185
.
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