The textile and clothing industry is a very important field of industry. It produces not only the second skin - clothing - for about 7 billion people but also contributes to human's third skin - housing - quite a lot.
Raw materials for textile products are vegetable fibres such as cotton, flax etc., animal fibres such as silk, wool, and other animal hair. Additional the residual products of the oil refinery and forestry were used for the production of viscose and chimical fibres. The firbres are processed to consumable products by textile industry by means of spinning, weaving, knitting, finishing and making-up.