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Gossypium hirsutum – upland cotton, native to Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and southern Florida (90% of world production) [3] Gossypium barbadense – known as extra-long staple cotton, native to tropical South America (over 5% of world production) [4] Gossypium arboreum – tree cotton, native to India and Pakistan (less than 2%)
Cotton fields in the United States. The United States exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India. [1] Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and production occurs in the Southern United States and the Western United States, dominated by Texas, California, Arizona, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
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. [3] [4] It is native to Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America, Central America and possibly tropical Florida. [5] [6]
The cotton industry played a significant role in the development of the American economy, with the production of cotton being the major source of income for slave owners in the southern United States prior to the Civil War, while the transport of said cotton to English and French mills and beyond became a mainstay of Northern shipping.
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 21st century represents about 95% of U.S. production. Among the earliest planters of Sea Island cotton in North America was an Englishman, Francis Levett. Other ...
When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas (genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first used as a food source. For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the ...
Native American Rugs, Blankets, and Quilts; American Indian Featherwork; The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco “The Mechanics of the Art World,” Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820. "PreColumbian Textile Conference Proceedings VII" (2016) "PreColumbian Textiles in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin" (2017)
Evan M. Maurer, "Determining Quality in Native American Art" in The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution, ed. Paul Anbinder, New York: Philbrook Art Center, 1986. Marian E. Rodee, Old Navajo Rugs: Their Development from 1900 to 1940, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.