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A bolt is a piece of cloth woven on a loom or created by a knitting machine, 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. It is a unit used in manufacturing, transport and inventory. It is also used as a descriptor for wallpaper, which uses different fabrication machinery. Being encompassing, it is by its nature a generic and ambiguous term of convenience and context, used to describe fabric and wallpaper. In modern production 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, representing the production. Manufacturing 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. Boltsare the rolls of cloth manufactured by a loom or knitting machine, which moves through subsequent processes of textile finishing. Loom Looms are equipped with devices that can measure the length of the bolt during manufacturing on the machine itself. Packing and trading Cloth merchant were marking the end of bolts with notations. This practice is continued in the industry to avoid mixing. Garment manufacturing After fabric inspection, the bolts are layered manually or fabric-spreading machines for relaxing and cutting with patterns. For more information, see Pattern; Ready-made garment Unit The length of a bolt varied according to the type of material measured. 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), 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. It is also the standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards (36 m). See also Piece goods Greige goods Fabric inspection Tanmono - In Japan case. References Notes Citations Bibliography Ahmad, Sheraz; Rasheed, Abher; Afzal, Ali; Ahmad, Faheem (2017). Advanced Textile Testing Techniques. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 214. ISBN 9781498784719. Christie, R. M. (2007). Environmental Aspects of Textile Dyeing. Cambridge Boca Raton, Florida: Elsevier. p. 83. ISBN 9781845693091. Diagram Group, ed. (2008). 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. Harder, Frances (2004). Fashion for Profit: A Professional's Complete Guide to Designing, Manufacturing, & Marketing a Successful Line. Frances Harder. p. 110. ISBN 9780972776318. Lee, Jaeil; Steen, Camille (2014). Technical Sourcebook for Designers. A&C Black. p. 135. ISBN 9781609018566. Nielson, Karla J. (2007). Interior Textiles: Fabrics, Application, and Historic Style. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. p. 174. ISBN 9780471606406. Purushothama, B. (2016). Handbook on Fabric Manufacturing: Grey Fabrics: Preparation, Weaving to Marketing. Havertown: Woodhead Publishing India. p. 274. ISBN 9789385059711. Ray, Sadhan C. (2012). Fundamentals and Advances in Knitting Technology. New Delhi, India: CRC Press. p. 81. ISBN 9789380308654. Rowlett, Russ (May 31, 2001). "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". University of North Carolina. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016. 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). Sarkar, Prasanta. Garment Manufacturing: Processes, Practices and Technology. Online Clothing Study. p. 160. ISBN 9789383701759. Stern, Boris (1937). Mechanical Changes in the Cotton-textile Industry, 1910 to 1936. Works Progress Administration. Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid; Merkel, Robert S. (2013). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles (8th ed.). New York: A&C Black; Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. p. 206. ISBN 9781609015350. Viļumsone-Nemes, I. (2012). Industrial Cutting of Textile Materials. Textiles (Imprint ed.). Kent: Woodhead Publishing. ISBN 9780857091345. Wong, Calvin (2017). Applications of Computer Vision in Fashion and Textiles. Kent: Woodhead Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 9780081012185. Further reading Linton, George Edward (1963). The Modern Textile Dictionary. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Rouette, H. K. (2002). Dictionary of Textile Finishing – Wörterbuch der Textilveregelung (1st imprint ed.). Berlin: Springer, Woodhead Publishing. ISBN 9781845691264.. Discover the Russ Bolts popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Russ Bolts books.