Cotton
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And it's found in
cotton
fields, and coltan mines, and even car washes in Norway and England.
In the 1850s, Brigham Young dispatched families to St. George to grow
cotton
because of the hot, arid climate.
So I think in the future, materials will evolve, and they will look and feel like fabrics we know today, like
cotton
or silk.
Then, the artist uses a tompo, or a
cotton
ball covered in silk, to put ink on the fabric or paper to produce the print.
Dust consists of dead skin cells from humans, soil particles, and fibers from clothes made from
cotton
and other materials.
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land.
It turned out that the
cotton
swabs used to collect the DNA samples had all been accidentally contaminated by a woman working in the swab factory.
It would be like all the denim jeans in your closet are all made of cotton, but they are different colors depending only on their size.
For example, we have shown that by adding only a small percent of nanocellulose into
cotton
fibers, the same as my shirt is made of, it increases its strength dramatically.
"And they think we're all prissy butts and that we walk around in hoop skirts with
cotton
fields in the background."
The play describes Atlantic crossings, Alabama
cotton
fields, New York skylines, and we framed the whole thing within this single revolving cube, a kind of kinetic cinema through the centuries.
Working with them, we created one of the best yarns in the world, which consists of thin metallic alloys wrapped around with polyester fibers and
cotton
fibers.
We were surrounded by thousands of acres of
cotton
fields.
We were standing on the edge of thousands of acres of
cotton.
So he gave us each a
cotton
sack, about 10 feet long, about that big around, and we started picking.
Now,
cotton
is soft but the outside of the plant is just full of stickers.
We sat there all day picking cotton, without complaining, without crying, while they sang things like: "Oh, Mary, don't you weep, don't you moan" and "Wade in the water," and "I done done," "This little light of mine."
Finally, by the end of the day, we'd each picked about a quarter of a bag of
cotton.
Now, I was just a little eight-year-old boy that day when my mama put me out of the car in that hot Texas
cotton
field.
But that day in the
cotton
field out there picking, when those people started singing, I realized I was in the very heart of real music, and that's where I've wanted to be ever since.
His great-granddad had been Eli Whitney, the inventor of the
cotton
gin.
They are made from handpicked organic Zimbabwean
cotton
that has been shuttle loomed and then hand-dipped in natural indigo 24 times.
He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose
cotton
yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their
cotton
yields would be better a few years later.
And across the street, a happy slave life, in the form of 150 Southern black performers, picking cotton, singing and dancing minstrel shows in a recreated antebellum attraction called Old Plantation.
The provocation was that instead of growing a plant, like cotton, in a field over several months, we could use microbes to grow a similar cellulose material in a lab in a few days.
And this is in contrast to currents methods of fabric production, where a plant is grown, just the
cotton
part is harvested, processed into a yarn, woven into a fabric and then potentially shipped across oceans before being cut and sewn into a garment.
These hardy structures were made not from iron or steel, but rather something unexpectedly soft:
cotton.
These thickly woven, layered quilts of
cotton
could distribute the energy from a blow across a large surface area, shielding warriors without restricting their mobility.
These seemingly contradictory features— strength and flexibility, softness and durability— have their roots in the intricate biology of the nearly invisible
cotton
fiber.
These fibers begin life deep within a
cotton
flower, on the surface of a seed.
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