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Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
He was born Mark Lavon Helm in 1940, in Elaine, Ark., the son of Nell and Diamond Helm, a cotton farmer.
They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton.
Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton.
In a long-skirted, gold and green and white cotton affair that slides mildly over her chestal area right up to her neck.
It is not a chince, I do assure you, it is an English cotton, which I value much more.
Period slipcovers were typically made of linen and cotton, in woven checks or striped dimities.
Ninety per cent of the dyeings on silk, 72 per cent of the dyeings on rayon, 70 per cent of the dyeings on cotton showed no color change.
It is important to note that the farmgate price can be quoted either in terms of seed cotton or lint.
Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.
Pawtucket was an early and important center of cotton textiles during the American Industrial Revolution.
They are trying to develop foreign markets for American cotton.
Suddenly she appeared in the inner doorway rather shyly. She had got a new cotton blouse on. Paul jumped up and went forward.
The flying shuttle increased the width of cotton cloth and speed of production of a single weaver at a loom.
With the spinning and weaving process now mechanized, cotton mills cropped up all over the North West of England.
Cotton had been too coarse for lace, but by 1805 Houldsworths of Manchester were producing reliable 300 count cotton thread.
It also illustrates how the mill owners exploited child labour, taking orphans from nearby Manchester to work the cotton.
Polyester became hugely popular in the apparel market, and by the late 1970s, more polyester was sold in the United States than cotton.
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear.
The original medieval fustian was a stout but respectable cloth with a cotton weft and a linen warp.
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By the early 20th century, fustians were usually of cotton dyed various colors.
It is usually made of spun fibre, originally wool, flax and cotton, today often of synthetic fiber such as nylon or rayon.
In 1771, Richard Arkwright used waterwheels to power looms for the production of cotton cloth, his invention becoming known as the water frame.
This is why we have made it the patriotic duty of every Indian to spin his own cotton and weave his own cloth.
In 1741 Edward Cave opened Marvel's Mill, the world's first cotton mill to be driven by a water wheel.
Limited companies were developed to construct mills, and the trading floors of the cotton exchange in Manchester, created a vast commercial city.
The cotton mill, originally a Lancashire phenomenon, was copied in New England and later in the southern states of America.
The development of cotton mills was linked to the development of the machinery they contained.
By 1774, 30,000 people in Manchester were employed using the domestic system in cotton manufacture.
The first cotton mills were established in the 1740s to house roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt.
Slater evaded restrictions on emigration put in place to allow England to maintain its monopoly on cotton mills.
In 1860, there were 2650 cotton mills in the Lancashire region, employing 440,000 people.
The cotton industry was subject to cycles of boom and slump, which caused waves of mill building.
Daniels and Jewkes argued the fundamental cause of the depression was a change in demand for cotton goods.
In Scotland, four cotton mills were built in Rothsay on the Isle of Bute using labour that had experience of the linen industry.
The earliest cotton mills were driven by water, so needed to be situated on fast flowing streams.
A spinning mill opened raw cotton bales and cleaned the cotton in the blowing room.
The cotton staples are carded into lap and straightened and drawn into roving which is spun using either a mule or ring frame.
But in Lancashire cotton mills, spinning became a male occupation, and the tradition of unions passed into the factory.
In the early days when the cotton towns were expanding rapidly, living conditions for the workers were poor.
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With the aid of this money, Crompton started a business as a bleacher and then as a cotton merchant and spinner, but without success.
In 1890, a typical cotton mill would have over 60 mules, each with 1,320 spindles, which would operate four times a minute for 56 hours a week.
Oldham counts refers to the medium thickness cotton that was used for general purpose cloth.
Bolton specialised in fine count cotton, and its mules ran more slowly to put in the extra twist.
The yarn could be bulked out by pressing in short fibres that would have been consider too short to spin if cotton.
Condenser spinning or cotton waste spinning is akin to spinning wool, and the mules are similar.
The number of yarn breakages was dependent on the quality of the roving, and quality cotton led to fewer breakages.
The spinning inventions were significant in enabling a great expansion to occur in the production of textiles, particularly cotton ones.
It was limited to cotton mule spinners and did not affect woollen or condenser mule spinners.
Mules had used this mixture since the 1880s, and cotton mules ran faster and hotter than the other mules, and needed more frequent oiling.
The spinning jenny was confined to producing cotton weft, it was unable to produce yarn of sufficient quality for the warp.
Lancashire businessmen produced grey cloth with linen warp and cotton weft, which they sent to London to be finished.
The use of coloured cotton weft, with linen warp was permitted in the 1736 Manchester Act.
The family might farm a few acres and card, spin and weave wool and cotton.
A change came about 1740 when fustian masters gave out raw cotton and warps to the weavers and returned to collect the finished cloth.
Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States.
Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin.
In the South, the cotton gin revolutionized the way cotton was harvested and reinvigorated slavery.
The cotton gin was a wooden drum stuck with hooks that pulled the cotton fibers through a mesh.
While the cotton gin did not earn Whitney the fortune he had hoped for, it did give him fame.
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It has been argued by some historians that Whitney's cotton gin was an important if unintended cause of the American Civil War.
And the cotton gin transformed Southern agriculture and the national economy.
Southern cotton found ready markets in Europe and in the burgeoning textile mills of New England.
By the late 1790s, Whitney was on the verge of bankruptcy and the cotton gin litigation had left him deeply in debt.
His New Haven cotton gin factory had burned to the ground, and litigation sapped his remaining resources.
Because the cotton gin had not brought Whitney the rewards he believed he would get, he accepted the contract.
The fibers are then processed into various cotton goods such as linens, while any undamaged cotton is used largely for textiles like clothing.
This cotton gin was used in India until innovations were made in the form of foot powered gins.
A narrow single roller was necessary to expel the seeds from the cotton without crushing the seeds.
The early history of the cotton gin is ambiguous, because archeologists likely mistook the cotton gin's parts for other tools.
There is slight controversy over whether the idea of the modern cotton gin and its constituent elements are correctly attributed to Eli Whitney.
It cleaned cotton several times faster than the older gins, and, when powered by one horse, produced 150 to 200 pounds of lint a day.
Prior to the introduction of the mechanical cotton gin, cotton had required considerable labor to clean and separate the fibers from the seeds.
The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth in the production of cotton in the United States, concentrated mostly in the South.
This pipe is usually manually operated, but is increasingly automated in modern cotton plants.
The module feeder's loose cotton is then sucked into the same starting point as the trailer cotton.
The cylinder cleaner uses six or seven rotating, spiked cylinders to break up large clumps of cotton.
The bale press then compresses the cotton into bales for storage and shipping.
The most common plant fiber is cotton, which is typically spun into fine yarn for mechanical weaving or knitting into cloth.
Cottonopolis denotes a metropolis centred on cotton trading servicing the cotton mills in its hinterland.
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It was inspired by Manchester, in England, and its status as the international centre of the cotton and textile trade during the 19th century.
Early cotton mills powered by water were built in Lancashire and its neighbouring counties.
Their owners spawned equally ornate bank and office buildings providing loans for the production of cotton and associated industries.
The air in the mills contained flammable fibres from the cotton, hemp, or wool being spun.
Although less dramatic, the action of the acid on cotton, even in diluted form, will destroy the fabric.
Sodium carbonate is used by the cotton industry to neutralize the sulfuric acid needed for acid delinting of fuzzy cottonseed.
Reactive dyes are by far the best choice for dyeing cotton and other cellulose fibers at home or in the art studio.
This method of dyeing cotton is declining in importance due to the toxic nature of the chemicals used.
The Welsbach was based on the idea of the Bunsen burner, still using gas, a cotton mesh with cerium and thorium was imbedded into the Welsbach.
Tull's book upon husbandry also influenced cotton culture in the American Southern Colonies.
The Port of Manchester was not the major destination for American cotton in the early 20th century, but it was for Egyptian cotton.
This process is repeated in spring, when collected cotton needs to be hoed and weeded.
Scavengers were the lowliest of the apprentices at the cotton mills and had to endure the worst conditions.
As the mule moved forwards the children were sent under the machine, sweeping and gathering the cotton.
He wrote about the mistreatment of workers at the cotton mills and the poor conditions that they had to endure.
About half of the workers in Manchester and Stockport cotton factories surveyed in 1818 and 1819 had begun work at under ten years of age.
It applied to the cotton industry only, but covered all children, whether apprentices or not.
Now lace is often made with cotton thread, although linen and silk threads are still available.
The textile industry, based on cotton and flax, employed about half of the industrial workforce for much of the industrial period.
In 1787, the first cotton mill in America was founded in the North Shore seaport of Beverly, Massachusetts as the Beverly Cotton Manufactory.
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Beverly Cotton Manufactory was the first cotton mill built in America, and the largest cotton mill to be built during its era.
The deed attached to this mentioned that the machinery within the buildings were formerly used for the manufacture of cotton.
Slater was well trained by Strutt and, by age 21, he had gained a thorough knowledge of the organisation and practice of cotton spinning.
The New England mills and their labor force of free men depended on southern cotton, which was based on slave labor.
By war's end in 1815, there were 140 cotton manufacturers within 30 miles of Providence, employing 26,000 hands and operating 130,000 spindles.
Manufacturing was based on Richard Arkwright's cotton spinning system, which included carding, drawing, and spinning machines.
There was only one other mill, a cotton mill, that was established in Uxbridge that year, which was the Clapp Mill on the Mumford River.
Arnold's Ironstone cotton mill, later made Kentucky Blue Jeans, and Seth Read's gristmill, later housed Bay State Arms.
North Uxbridge housed Clapp's 1810 cotton mill, Chandler Taft's and Richard Sayles' Rivulet Mill, the granite quarry, and Rogerson's village.
In 1790, Samuel Slater opened the first successful water powered cotton mill in America, Slater Mill, at Pawtucket Falls.
During the Civil War, local politics split over slavery as many had ties to Southern cotton.
The Waltham Machine Shop attached to the BMC made power looms for sale to other American cotton mills.
In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy.
Most power weaving took place in weaving sheds, in small towns circling Greater Manchester away from the cotton spinning area.
They had the security of fixed hours, and except in times of hardship, such as in the cotton famine, regular income.
Inhaling cotton dust caused lung problems, and the noise was causing total hearing loss.
The Company traded in basic commodities, which included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium.
Processed products included cotton textiles, yarns, thread, silk, jute products, metalware, and foods such as sugar, oils and butter.
The most important center of cotton production was the Bengal province, particularly around its capital city of Dhaka.
Domestically, much of India depended on Bengali products such as rice, silks and cotton textiles.
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The cotton industry shifted to Lancashire, and the Staveley mills were converted to work wood.
Arthur Clough was born in Liverpool to James Butler Clough, a cotton merchant of Welsh descent, and Anne Perfect, from Pontefract in Yorkshire.
The world's first cotton mill was built in the town of Royton, and the county encompasses several former mill towns.
The mill continued spinning cotton until around 1940 but then fell into disuse.
William Hulton was a supporter of the Bolton and Leigh Railway, Lancashire's first public railway, opened in 1828 to carry coal and cotton.
It reduced the shipping costs of raw cotton to the mills and the dispatching the finished cloth overseas.
Next came Kelham Wheel, which was used as a cutlers wheel, a silk mill, and a cotton mill.
At its zenith, it was the most productive cotton spinning mill town in the world, producing more cotton than France and Germany combined.
It is, however, still distinguished architecturally by the surviving cotton mills and other buildings associated with that industry.
Oldham became the world's manufacturing centre for cotton spinning in the second half of the 19th century.
Wholly reliant upon the textile industry, the cotton famine created chronic unemployment in the town.
Shaddon Mill, in Denton Holme, became famous for having the worlds 8th tallest chimney and was the largest cotton mill in England.
In the second half of the 18th century, the manufacture of cotton began to replace wool.
However, the resumption of trade led to a quick recovery and, by 1866, the town was the largest producer of cotton cloth in the world.
In the late 18th century cotton spinning became the town's main employment.
The seed heads are covered in a fluffy mass of cotton which are carried on the wind to aid dispersal.
Paper and the wicks of candles have been made of its cotton, and pillows stuffed with the same material.
Close on their heels was any Texan who had ever said a word against the slaveocracy, or the cotton men, or was suspected of voting for Lincoln.
A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
So, cotton, linen, superwash wool, and anything with nylon or acrylic or rayon or silk can instantly be ruled out for most projects.
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We used an old toboggan stuffed with cotton for the ball, and it served the purpose very well.
On one table, for example, we placed a silver topcloth over a rose cotton undercloth.
Turband pieces in cotton, silk, cotton and gold, and silk and gold, are those usually manufactured.
The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.
The cotton grower felt delight at the gainsome expansion of his cotton fields.
Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time.
It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire.
All natural cotton products are known to be both sustainable and hypoallergenic.
Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
The growing international demand for cotton led many plantation owners further west in search of suitable land.
Aboubakar Fofana, a Malian artist who divides his time between Paris and Bamako, creates indigo textiles made from handspun cotton and linen.
Based on two sets of rollers that travelled at different speeds, it was later used in the first cotton spinning mill.
Eli Whitney responded to the challenge by inventing the inexpensive cotton gin.
Children employed as mule scavengers by cotton mills would crawl under machinery to pick up cotton, working 14 hours a day, six days a week.
Modern industry first appeared in textiles, including cotton and especially silk, which was based in home workshops in rural areas.
This was only possible because coal, coke, imported cotton, brick and slate had replaced wood, charcoal, flax, peat and thatch.
We must have Egyptian cotton for making certain kinds of cloth, to inmix with our own.
The company's mainstay businesses were by then cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, and tea.
The Union blockade of southern ports stopped the supply of cotton to textile mills in France, and caused unemployment.
The combination of competition and improved efficiency halved the cost of coal and halved the transport cost of raw cotton.
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In 1780, Richard Arkwright began construction of Manchester's first cotton mill.
Large quantities of machinery, including cotton processing plant, were exported around the world.
In 1741 they opened the world's first cotton mill in Birmingham's Upper Priory.
The settlement soon became a flourishing river port and crossroads, giving rise to vast cotton kingdoms along the river.
As the Deep South was developed for both cotton and sugar in the nineteenth century, demand increased for slaves.
Marvel's Mill in Northampton was the first cotton mill to be powered by water.
Along with general cargo, freight, raw materials such as coal and cotton, the city was also involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton.
Charles Dickens visited Preston in January 1854 during a strike by cotton workers that had by that stage lasted for 23 weeks.
New industries arrived in Preston during the interwar years which helped ease the pain felt through the sharp decline of the cotton industry.
Messrs Wright, the bankers of Nottingham, recommended that Richard Arkwright apply to Strutt and Need for finance for his cotton spinning mill.
This was followed in Derbyshire by Jedediah Strutt's cotton spinning mills at Belper.
The spinning frame is an Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way.
As a consequence, engines equipped only with this governor were not suitable for operations requiring constant speed, such as cotton spinning.
Until 1800 Malta depended on cotton, tobacco and its shipyards for exports.
Activities included coal mining, textile production, particularly cotton, and fishing.
Queen Street Mill, the worlds only surviving steam driven cotton weaving shed located in Burnley.
These ideas were put into effect successfully in the cotton mills of New Lanark, Scotland.
The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross or some pieces of cotton cloth.
They are the reminiscences of melodies sung by negroes stowing cotton in the holds of ships in Southern ports.
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Texas is a major cattle and sheep raising area, as well as the nation's largest producer of cotton.
Women wear embroidered silk, cotton, or wool shawls and pinafores that can take months to weave or embroider with local flora and fauna.
The students presented a brief minidrama about the invention of the cotton gin.
Major agricultural products include rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, and potatoes.
At the time, Glasgow held a commercial importance as the city participated in the trade of sugar, tobacco and later cotton.
They developed cotton as an important cash crop, but it was superseded by the development of the salt industry.
In spite of these declarations, the EU Commission proposed the continuation of cotton subsidies, coupled to production.
The Communication on the future of the CAP does not mention the cotton sector.
On the other hand, the EU is by far the largest provider of development assistance to cotton.
He also patented a rotary carding engine that transformed raw cotton into cotton lap.
He became interested in spinning and carding machinery that turned raw cotton into thread.
He was invited to Scotland where he helped David Dale establish the cotton mills at New Lanark.
It could make cotton thread thin and strong enough for the warp, or long threads, of cloth.
He devised a method of treating cotton to produce 'parchmentised thread' in the early 1880s and obtained British Patent 4933 that same year.
Baird suffered from cold feet, and after a number of trials, he found that an extra layer of cotton inside the sock provided warmth.
It began with trade with Colonial America, first in tobacco and then rum, sugar and cotton.
The Southern colonies in particular relied on cash crops such as tobacco and cotton.
Women wear embroidered silk, cotton or wool shawls and pinafores that can take months to weave or embroider with local flora and fauna.
In the 15th century China began to require households to pay part of their taxes in cotton cloth.
In India a significant amount of cotton textiles were manufactured for distant markets, often produced by professional weavers.
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India produced a variety of cotton cloth, some of exceptionally fine quality.
The Moors in Spain grew, spun and wove cotton beginning around the 10th century.
Productivity improvement in wool spinning during the Industrial Revolution was significant, but was far less that that of cotton.
America's cotton plantations were highly efficient and profitable, and able to keep up with demand.
It was the first Ideal Worker's City in Italy, built close to the cotton factory.
From 1790 the chief industry in the west of Scotland became textiles, especially the spinning and weaving of cotton.
At the end of the War of 1812, fewer than 300,000 bales of cotton were produced nationally.
In 1782, George Houston built what was then one of the largest cotton mills in the country in Johnstone.
At present, about one-half of Hong Kong's clothing exports and two-thirds of its nonknitted outerwear exports are made of cotton.
Several factories were later built along the banks of the River Dee, where both wool and cotton were processed.
From the 18th century, the town grew around the lead mining and cotton milling industries.
Hardest hit were farm commodities such as wheat, cotton, tobacco, and lumber.
However the practice was revived in 1794 with the invention of the cotton gin.
Its main constituent materials are sphagnum moss, cotton grass, deer grass, heather and sedge.
The contract was arranged through the Fraser Trenholm Company, a cotton broker in Liverpool with ties to the Confederacy.
Always use a layer of wadding or cotton overstuffing to make the work smooth.
And there wasn't one plain white cotton and elastic over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder in the bunch.
Also, it was the Greek agriculturists and farmers that first systematically and with scientific planning, cultivated cotton and tobacco.
They improved the quantity and quality of production and dominated cotton and tobacco exports.
Dressed in a simple grey cotton sari, her head covered with the pallu, she sat on a platform behind a table with a microphone.
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These native groups are characterized for their work in wood, like masks, drums and other artistic figures, as well as fabrics made of cotton.
Domestic slave trading, however, continued at a rapid pace, driven by labor demands from the development of cotton plantations in the Deep South.
The northern textile mills in New York and New England processed Southern cotton and manufactured clothes to outfit slaves.
There was an explosive growth of cotton cultivation throughout the Deep South and greatly increased demand for slave labor to support it.
Many of the ships were designed for speed and were so small that only a small amount of cotton went out.
Worse, Europe developed other cotton suppliers, which they found superior, hindering the South's recovery after the war.
When Britain did face a cotton shortage, it was temporary, being replaced by increased cultivation in Egypt and India.
Modern marine sealants are frequently used now in place of the pitch, or even to supplant the oakum and cotton itself.
For example, in California cattle are commonly fed almond hulls and cotton seed.
Linen was the traditional fiber of sails until it was supplanted by cotton during the 19th century.
As sail size grew linen was too heavy to be practical so cotton became more popular.
Common natural fibres for rope are manila hemp, hemp, feathers, linen, cotton, coir, jute, straw, and sisal.
Rope made from hemp, cotton or nylon is generally stored in a cool dry place for proper storage.
Traditionally it is worked on white fabric with white cotton thread but in recent years other colors and threads are popular.
A wide variety of valuable crops including cereals, rice and cotton, and woods such as cedar and cork, are grown.
The hoe hands chopped out the weeds that surrounded the cotton plants as well as excessive sprouts.
The plow gangs followed behind, stirring the soil near the rows of cotton plants and tossing it back around the plants.
Makeshift oil lamps can easily be made by soaking a ball of cotton in olive oil and forming it into a peak.
The peak is lit and then burns until all the oil is consumed, whereupon the rest of the cotton burns out.
Exports include fish, chemicals, cotton, fabrics, groundnuts, and calcium phosphate.
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They are thus assured with an abundance of wool, cotton and plants used for dyeing.
Sisal was introduced to Haiti, and sugarcane and cotton became significant exports.
They go around usually naked, although sometimes they wear a small cotton loincloth.
Cassava and sago are the chief crops, which also include breadfruit, sugarcane, coffee, cocoa, pepper and cotton.
Weaving was mostly done by women, using fibers from abaca, pineapple, cotton, and bark to make clothes, rugs and hats.
The province of Acapulco became the encomendero of Rodriguez de Villafuerte who received taxes in the form of cocoa, cotton and corn.
Production of cotton textiles, largely by Maya women, helped pay households' tribute obligations, but basic crops were the basis of the economy.
Collective labor cultivated the confraternities' lands, which included raising the traditional maize, beans, and cotton.
Nor does she cotton to combination grind-and-brew makers or anything dependent on pod packets of preground coffee.
In addition to basic foodstuffs, the Maya also cultivated prestige crops such as cotton, cacao and vanilla.
The Aztecs were interested in the area's vegetation and crops such as cedars, fruit, cotton, cacao, corn, beans and vanilla.
Panamanian men's traditional clothing, called montuno, consists of white cotton shirts, trousers and woven straw hats.
Major agricultural outputs of the state are tobacco, poultry, cotton, cattle, dairy products, soybeans, hay, rice, and swine.
A cotton farmer and his children pose before taking their crop to a cotton gin, ca.
Silver and copper from Japan were used to trade with India and China for silk, cotton, porcelain, and textiles.
When international cotton prices collapsed, planters switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts.
By 1890, successful experiments were conducted that placed the plant in a frame covered by thin cotton fabric.
Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the dispersal of the seeds.
The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa.
China is the world's largest producer of cotton, but most of this is used domestically.
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The Spanish who came to Mexico and Peru in the early 16th century found the people growing cotton and wearing clothing made of it.
John Chardin, a French traveler of the 17th century who visited Safavid Persia, spoke approvingly of the vast cotton farms of Persia.
Handheld roller cotton gins had been used in India since the 6th century, and was then introduced to other countries from there.
The spinning wheel, introduced to Europe circa 1350, improved the speed of cotton spinning.
The cotton textile industry was responsible for a large part of the empire's international trade.
The most important center of cotton production was the Bengal Subah province, particularly around its capital city of Dhaka.
It was under Muhammad Ali in the early 19th century that steam engines were introduced to the Egyptian cotton industry.
As there was no punishment for continuing to sell cotton cloth, smuggling of the popular material became commonplace.
Indian cotton textiles, particularly those from Bengal, continued to maintain a competitive advantage up until the 19th century.
Britain eventually surpassed India as the world's leading cotton textile manufacturer in the 19th century.
From focusing on supplying the British market to supplying East Asia with raw cotton.
The advent of the Industrial Revolution in Britain provided a great boost to cotton manufacture, as textiles emerged as Britain's leading export.
Before the development of cotton gins, the cotton fibers had to be pulled from the seeds tediously by hand.
In the United States, cultivating and harvesting cotton became the leading occupation of slaves.
This prompted the main purchasers of cotton, Britain and France, to turn to Egyptian cotton.
In the United States, Southern cotton provided capital for the continuing development of the North.
The cotton was largely produced through the labor of enslaved African Americans.
Since cotton is somewhat salt and drought tolerant, this makes it an attractive crop for arid and semiarid regions.
For example, improper cropping and irrigation practices have led to desertification in areas of Uzbekistan, where cotton is a major export.
In the days of the Soviet Union, the Aral Sea was tapped for agricultural irrigation, largely of cotton, and now salination is widespread.
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Naturally colored cotton can come in red, green, and several shades of brown.
The gene coding for Bt toxin has been inserted into cotton, causing cotton, called Bt cotton, to produce this natural insecticide in its tissues.
A 2012 Chinese study concluded that Bt cotton halved the use of pesticides and doubled the level of ladybirds, lacewings and spiders.
This made India the country with the largest area of GM cotton in the world.
Other GM cotton growing countries in 2011 were Argentina, Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa and Costa Rica.
There are also a number of other cotton seed companies selling GM cotton around the world.
Historically, in North America, one of the most economically destructive pests in cotton production has been the boll weevil.
Fabric also can be made from recycled or recovered cotton that otherwise would be thrown away during the spinning, weaving, or cutting process.
During the American slavery period, cotton root bark was used in folk remedies as an abortifacient, that is, to induce a miscarriage.
Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning.
Shiny cotton is a processed version of the fiber that can be made into cloth resembling satin for shirts and suits.
Pima cotton is often compared to Egyptian cotton, as both are used in high quality bed sheets and other cotton products.
It is considered the next best quality after high quality Egyptian cotton by some authorities.
Dunavant Enterprises, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the leading cotton broker in Africa, with hundreds of purchasing agents.
In Zambia, it often offers loans for seed and expenses to the 180,000 small farmers who grow cotton for it, as well as advice on farming methods.
The future of these subsidies is uncertain and has led to anticipatory expansion of cotton brokers' operations in Africa.
Damaged cotton is sometimes stored at these temperatures to prevent further deterioration.
A public genome sequencing effort of cotton was initiated in 2007 by a consortium of public researchers.
They agreed on a strategy to sequence the genome of cultivated, tetraploid cotton.
Once both diploid genomes are assembled, then research could begin sequencing the actual genomes of cultivated cotton varieties.

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