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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.
Gossypium hirsutum, also known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, is the most widely planted species of cotton in the world. Globally, about 90% of all cotton production is of cultivars derived from this species. [2] In the United States, the world's largest exporter of cotton, it constitutes approximately 95% of all cotton production.
Gossypium barbadense L. – Creole cotton/Sea Island Cotton (tropical South America) Gossypium darwinii G.Watt – Darwin's cotton (Galápagos Islands) Gossypium hirsutum L. – upland cotton (Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and southern Florida) Gossypium mustelinum Miers ex G.Watt; Gossypium tomentosum Nutt. ex Seem – Maʻo or ...
Petit Gulf cotton was a cotton hybrid patented by planter Rush Nutt at his Laurel Hill Plantation in Rodney, Mississippi, in 1833. [1] It was named "Petit Gulf" for the bend of the Mississippi River where it was grown. [2] It proved more resistant than the green seed cotton from Georgia as long as planters followed the breeding process used in ...
Socks, underwear, and most T-shirts are made from cotton. Bed sheets often are made from cotton. It is a preferred material for sheets as it is hypoallergenic, easy to maintain and non-irritant to the skin. [94] Cotton also is used to make yarn used in crochet and knitting. Fabric also can be made from recycled or recovered cotton that ...
King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (2010) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2015) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850 (2013) Yafa, Stephen (2006). Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary ...
Credit - Courtesy of Pegasus Books. D eborah “Big Red” Cotton and I met by getting shot together. It was a Mother’s Day afternoon during Barack Obama’s second term as America’s first ...
It made processing of short-staple cotton profitable. This cotton, known as upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), could be grown successfully in the interior uplands. Short-staple cotton became the prime commodity crop of the developing Deep South, and King Cotton was the basis of southern wealth in the antebellum years. This cotton in the early ...