A single page from the Romanian encyclopedia Enciclopedia Română, ending the entry on cotton (Bumbac). It covers the growing conditions suited to Romania, non-textile uses (medicine, pyroxylin, collodion, wicks, seed oil), and the preparation of cotton fibre by ginning, cleaning and drying before spinning and weaving. It also lists cotton fabrics and the commercial forms of cotton yarn, and has illustrations of a cotton branch and cotton fibres.