Auburn University 2026 Exam
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Common names for our industry? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Textile Industry
Fashion Industry
Apparel Industry
Garment Industry
Retail
,What jobs and items are included in the Textile industry? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Jobs:
Wholesale reps who sell fabrics and findings to apparel producers
Items:
Fibers, yarns, fabric,
Findings (zippers, buttons,S interfacings)
Converters - dye, print, finish fabrics
What jobs and items are included in the Apparel industry? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔- Apparel designers
- Apparel manufacturers -cut and sew fabric clothing
- Apparel wholesale reps who sell to retailers
- Apparel retailers (department stores, specialty stores, boutiques, chain
stores, discount stores, catalog, factory outlets, internet retailers)
What are the 4 natural fibers we went over? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cotton
Wool
,Flax (Linen)
Silk
Tariff - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a tax on imported goods
(Ex. From England)
Import - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔goods purchased from other countries
Export - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔goods sold to other countries
Embargo & Example - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prohibition on exports or imports
Example: cigars from Cuba
Who brought the plans of the cotton mill to America? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1789: Samuel Slater brought the cotton mill plans to America
What is the difference between spinning and weaving? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔making yarn vs. using yarn to make fabric
________: the process of converting fibers into yarn
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, ________: the process of interlacing long threads passing in one direction
with others at a right angle to them. (taking yarn and making fabric)
What is the Power loom and what advancement did it bring? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔machine that weaves the spun yarns into fabric (originally water
powered)
______ ______ ----> Vertical Intergration
all processes being completed under one roof (spinning---> finished cloth)
Bilateral trade agreement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔trade agreements between 2
countries
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Refers to business
practices that contribute positively to society
What is a cotton gin and what does it do? Who invented it? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔engine that cleans the cotton
- Patented by Eli Whitney
Issac Singer patents sewing machine for what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Patented
for factory use