NIOS Class 10th Home Science (216) Important Question & Answer Ch 11

Aug 01, 2025
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NIOS Class 10th Home Science (216) Important Question & Answer Ch 11

NIOS Class-10th Chapter wise Important Topics

HOME SCIENCE(216)

Ch- 11  

Ques 28. Explain the importance of finishing clothes.

Answer - Textile finishing is important for the following reasons. Finishing helps in:

  • Improves the appearance of the fabric and makes it look beautiful.
  • Creates variety in clothes through dyeing and printing.
  • Improves the touch or feel of the fabric.
  • Makes clothes more useful.
  • Increases the efficiency of wearing light weight clothes.
  • Makes the fabric suitable for its actual (specific) use.

Ques 29. Explain the difference between “finished” and “unfinished” clothes.

Answer - The differences between "finished" and "unfinished" clothes are:

Finished clothes

Unfinished clothes

It is shiny, attractive, available in a variety of colors, prints etc.

These are dull in appearance and available only in natural colours.

Like light white, brown, black etc.

Finished clothes are smooth and free from wrinkles. It is of uniform width and free from blemishes.

Unfinished clothes are wrinkled, full of stains, broken threads and uneven width.

The price of a cloth depends on the type of cloth, the number and type of finishes used in it.

 These are cheaper than finished clothes.

Customers get attracted after seeing them and buy them.

These clothes do not attract customers. These are purchased only for general purposes like baking, packaging etc.

 

Ques 30. What is Block Printing ?

Answer - Block Printing: In which each letter is stamped by pressing a stamp on an ink pad. Similarly, a pattern is engraved on a wooden block. The design is printed by dipping this stamp in a thick colored solution and applying it on the cloth. It is also called “block printing” or stamp printing.

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