All about cotton

The cotton fiber is the most widely used natural textile in the world, and is a great history behind it. Having grown up in many tropical and temperate regions of China, Russia, United States, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Turkey and Mexico are the main producers.

Cotton is a white, brown and white, yellowish-white or bluish-white, soft, fibrous substance that surrounds the seeds of some plants, genus Gossypium, mallow. Cotton is used for underwear and clothing, accessories andDecorative materials and has wide applications in industrial materials.

Different types of cotton to absorb different characteristics such as fiber length, finesse and ability to paint. high-quality fabrics are made with long fiber length of short fibers of cotton fibers.

Cotton is known to have been cultivated in pre-Inca Peru and in adjacent areas. E 'was also grown and made in India in the fabric already 1800 BC records show that the cotton was grown in Japan around the year800.

The widespread knowledge of cotton Crusades in Europe, through Egypt, Persia and the Far East. Thirteenth century England was known for its cotton candle wicks. In 1492 Christopher Columbus found cotton Iceland Sea in the Bahamas and took samples to him after his return to Spain. Knowledge of the cotton is extended to other European nations.

In 1519, Pizarro and Cortez cotton production in Mexico, Central America and South America in 1520 and Magellan are found in cottoncultivated extensively in Brazil.

The two most important textile fiber in pre-Columbian America were cotton and wool (llama and alpaca). Spanish settlers planted cotton seeds, and the i8th century in Brazil and the West Indies were the centers of world cotton production.

The cotton industry was founded in England in 1641. Cotton soon compete with wool, and in 1701, to protect the wool trade, big business with the mainland, Britain banned the usecotton in any way.

cotton plantations were established in Virginia in 1650. In the years 1792-1794 Eli Whitney built and perfected his famous cotton gin on strawberry Plantation near Savannah, Georgia One of the easiest and best inventions of all time, has undergone some important changes and improvements. Due to the success of the Whitney gin was about 6,000,000 pounds (2,700,000 kg) of cotton produced in the United States in 1795. Production in the 25 years following theInvention of pink gin (6,000,000 kg) more than twenty times more than 125 million pounds a year.

A breakthrough in cotton production came in 1936 with the introduction of the Rust brothers, and John Mack, of Memphis, Tennessee, mechanical cotton pickers. About 4,000 of the previous attempts have been made to select a perfect machine for cotton in the area.

The shift of textile factories of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and began to the south, after the outbreak of World War II andterminated around the 1918th are many reasons for the increased production of cotton fabrics in the south: the accessibility of the cotton-producing areas and other commodity prices, lower wages and energy costs, the development programs of global governance, less management issues labor intensive, and the availability of capital. started for reasons largely similar, the production of chemical fibers and textiles in the South focused particularly North and South Carolina in 1940.