Chapter 8: Clothes — How Things are Made QNA

📘 Class 5 EVS

Book: Our Wondrous World
Unit 4 – Things Around Us

Chapter 8: Clothes — How Things are Made (Pages 131–144)

🐦 Patterns with Threads (Pages 131–132)

Birds and spiders also weave and stitch.
The baya weaver bird makes hanging nests by weaving grass.
Weaving means crossing threads over and under to make cloth, mats or baskets.

🧺 Activity 1 – Paper Weaving (Page 133)

What do you learn?

Weaving means putting strips over–under again and again.
We can make mats and baskets this way.

Discuss (Page 133):
Examples at home:

Bamboo basket, rope mat, cane chair, jute bag.

🔍 Activity 2 – Look at Cloth (Page 134)

Answer:
Yes, we can see a criss-cross pattern of threads in cloth.

🧵 Traditions of Weaving (Page 134)

India has handloom weaving for over 4000 years.
Cloth made by hand is called handloom.
Famous types:
- Kanjeevaram – Tamil Nadu
- Pashmina – Kashmir
- Ikat – Odisha & Gujarat

🧶 Thread and Spinning (Pages 135–136)

Activity 3 (Page 135)

What happens?

Twisting cotton makes it stronger.
This is called spinning.
Fibre = thin hair-like strand
Thread/Yarn = many fibres twisted together
Charkha helps in spinning.

🌱 Natural and Synthetic Fibres (Pages 136–137)

Natural fibres:

Cotton
Wool
Silk
Jute
Linen
Bamboo

Silk comes from the cocoon of silkworm (Page 136)

Synthetic fibres:

Nylon
Rayon
Polyester
Terylene

🧳 Activity 4 – Clothes Around You (Page 138)

Sample Answers:

Item	Natural/Synthetic	What I like
Cotton shirt	Natural	Soft and cool
School bag	Synthetic	Strong
Sweater	Wool (Natural)	Warm
Raincoat	Synthetic	Waterproof

🐤 Tailor Bird – Crafting with Needle and Thread (Pages 138–139)

The tailor bird stitches leaves to make a nest.
It uses beak like a needle and plant fibre like thread.

🍃 Activity 5 – Leaf Plate (Page 139)

What you make:

Plate or spoon by joining leaves with toothpicks.

🪡 Activity 6 – Stitching (Page 139)

Answers:

Seen tailor / mother fixing clothes or stitching.
Yes, shirts and bags are stitched from pieces.

🧷 Activity 7 – Running Stitch (Page 140)

What is it?

A simple stitch: up–down, up–down in a straight line.

🧵 Activity 8 – Join Two Cloth Pieces (Pages 140–141)

Answer:

Use running stitch to join pieces and make:
- Table cloth
- Mat
- Cleaning cloth

If one thread breaks (Page 141):

Stitches will start opening.
Every thread is important.

🎨 Stitch and Decorate – Indian Embroidery (Pages 141–142)

Famous embroideries:

Chikankari – Uttar Pradesh
Banjara – Rajasthan
Kantha – West Bengal, Odisha, Tripura
Gota – Rajasthan
Phulkari – Punjab
Toda – Tamil Nadu
Kashmiri – Kashmir
Khneng – Meghalaya

♻️ Recycle Old Clothes (Page 142)

Old clothes are:
- Given to others
- Made into quilts, mats, bags, cleaning cloths
This saves money and cloth.

🧠 Let Us Reflect – Answers (Page 143)

1. Have you reused old cloth?

Answer (example):
Yes, old saree was made into cleaning cloth or bag.

2. If one thread breaks, what happens?

Answer:
Cloth or mat will start opening because all threads are connected.

3. Tools in tailor/handloom shop

Answer:
Needle, thread, sewing machine, scissors, loom, charkha.

4. Famous work of your area/state

Answer (example):
Phulkari (Punjab) / Ikat / Chikankari / etc.

5. Why should we not throw old clothes?

Answer:
Because they can be reused or recycled.

6. Life cycle of silk moth (Correct order)

Silk moth lays eggs
Eggs hatch into tiny caterpillars
Caterpillars eat mulberry leaves and grow big
Caterpillars spin cocoons
Adult moth comes out of cocoon
The cycle begins again

🧵 Activity 7 Table – Cloth Pieces (Page 144)