Cotton
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A two-page article from the Master Weaver newsletter (Z-Handicrafts, Fulford, Quebec) on cotton as a textile fiber. It outlines the history of cotton cultivation and use from ancient China and India to 20th-century US production, then covers fiber length and quality by variety, physical and chemical properties, yarn count, ginning, carding and combing, and mercerizing and other finishing treatments.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- January 1955
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- PDF provided by Judith Combs. By permission.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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