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Sally Fox (born 1955) is a cotton breeder who breeds naturally colored varieties of cotton. She is the inventor of Foxfibre®️ and founder of the company Natural Cotton Colors Inc. Fox invented the first species of environmentally friendly colored cotton that could be spun into thread on a machine.
Natural color in cotton comes from pigments found in cotton; these pigments can produce shades ranging from tan to green and brown. [3] Naturally pigmented green cotton derives its color from caffeic acid, a derivative of cinnamic acid, found in the suberin (wax) layer which is deposited in alternating layers with cellulose around the outside of the cotton fiber.
John Horrocks was the son of John Horrocks, a quarry master and manufacturer of millstones at Edgworth near Bolton. At the time, the cotton business and the textile industry was expanding and John Horrocks was interested in its possibilities. He originally bought two or three frames to spin cotton and started his business in his father's factory.
John Wesley Cotton (October 29, 1869 – November 24, 1931) [1] was a printmaker and painter in the early years of the 20th century. He was known for his aquatints, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] etchings, and drypoints, and for introducing the colour aquatint process to Canada.
Bibb Manufacturing Company was a textile company founded in Macon, Georgia, in 1876 and was sold to Dan River in 1998. Bibb Manufacturing Company, also known as "The Bibb Company" produced cotton products such as sheets, comforters, towels, curtains, and bedspreads.
Samuel Green of Cambridge, Massachusetts, printed it in 1656 for bookseller Hezekiah Usher. [13] It was an octavo booklet. [14] A copy of this book was supposedly purchased by the Lenox Library of Massachusetts for $400 in 1895. [15] Cotton's catechism remained in print in both England and New England for some 200 years after the mid ...
To John Kennedy, Esq. and the Cotton-Spinners of Lancashire, this plate is respectfully dedicated, by the publishers. Fisher, Son and Co. London 1829. Engraving by Thomas Dixon after a drawing by John Harwood. Originally published in William Henry Pyne's partwork Lancashire Illustrated, from Original Drawings (1828-1831). [5] Samuel Crompton
Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – October 29, 1969) was an American farmer and Baptist theologian, founder of Koinonia Farm, a small but influential religious community in southwest Georgia and the author of the Cotton Patch paraphrase of the New Testament.