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The general overview of cotton |
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| Release time:2013-02-28 Source:admin Reads: | |
| Cotton is a shrubby plant that is a member of the Mallow family. Its name refers to the cream-colored fluffy fibers surrounding small cottonseeds called a boll. The small, sticky seeds must be separated from the wool in order to process the fibric labels or spinning and weaving. De-seeded cotton is cleaned, carded( fibers aligned), spun, and woven into a fabric that is also referred to as cotton. Cotton is easily spun into yarn as the cotton fibers flatten, twist, and naturally interlock for spinning. Cotton fabric alone accounts for fully half of the fiber worn in the world. It is a comfortable choice for warm climate in that it easily absorbs skin moisture. Most of the cotton cultivated in the United States is a short-staple cotton that grows in the American South. Cotton is planted annually by using the seeds found within the downy wool. The states that primarily cultivate cotton are located in the “Cotton Belt,” which runs east and west and includes parts of California, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Arizonal and Louisiana, which alone produces nearly five million bales. Cotton was used for clothing in present-day Peru and Mexicao perhaps as long as 5,000 years ago. Also, cotton was grown, spun, and woven fabric labels in ancient India, China, Egypt, and Pakistan around 3000 B.C. Around A.D. 800, Arabic traders likely introduced cotton to Spaniards. By the fourteenth century, Mediterranean farmers were cultivating the cotton plant and shipping the fiber to the Netherlands for spinning and weaving fabric labels. British innovations in the late 1700s include water-powered spinning machinery, a monumental improvement over hand-spinning. An American memorized the plans for a machine spinner and returned to set up Slater Mill, the first American textile mill to utilize machine spinners. This mill represents the beginning of the U.S. Industrial Revolution, built on the mechanism of the cotton industry. |
