The first Industrial Revolution was based largely on the cotton and textile industry. Cotton is a plant that produces fuzzy seed pods, like a cotton ball. The cotton is spun into yarn and then woven into fabric. Many of the clothes that you wear are made from cotton. For example, almost all blue jeans and tee shirts are made of cotton.
Textiles are fabrics.
The textile industry is the industry that makes yarn and fabric. In the mid-1700s, an English weaver named John Kay invented the flying shuttle, a device that cut cotton twice as fast as before. In 1769, the spinning jenny and the water-powered frame were invented. These inventions provided yarn faster to the weaver. Edmund Cartwright invented a power loom that let weavers make cloth even more quickly.