纺织 ，大致分为纺纱与编织两道工序，中国纺织的起源相传由嫘祖养蚕冶丝开始，考古则在旧石器时代山顶洞人的考古遗址上发现了骨针，为已知纺织最早的起源，至新石器时代，发明了纺轮，使得冶丝更加便捷，西周则出现了原始的纺织机：纺车、轈车，汉朝时发明了提花机，明朝宋应星编撰天工开物将纺织技术编入其中。

中国最著名的纺织品莫过于丝绸，丝绸的交易带动了东西方的文化的交流与交通的发展，也间接影响了西方的商业与军事。

英国工业革命前期出现了分工细致的工厂，然而6-8个纺工生产的棉纱只能供给1个织工织棉布，引起所谓的“纱荒”。1765年一位叫做詹姆斯·哈格里夫斯的英国织工发明了一种新式的纺纱机，他用自己女儿的名字命名了这台机器，即著名的珍妮纺纱机。新型纺纱机与的改良与发明带动了英国纺织业的发展，间接影响了日后印度甘地不合作运动的发生。

Spinning is a major part of the textile industry. It is part of the textile manufacturing process where three types of fibre are converted into yarn, then fabrics, which undergo finishing processes such as bleaching to become textiles. The textiles are then fabricated into clothes or other products. There are three industrial processes available to spin yarn, and a handicraft community who use hand spinning techniques. Spinning is the twisting together of drawn out strands of fibres to form yarn, though it is colloquially used to describe the process of drawing out, inserting the twist, and winding onto bobbins. In simple words, spinning is a process in which we convert fibers by passing through certain processes like Blow room, Carding, Drawing, Combing, Simplex, Ring Frame and finally winding into yarns. These yarns are then wound onto the cones.