Cotton is a fiber that grows from the surface of seeds in the pods of a bushy mallow plant. ... Upland cotton fibers are generally fairly white, strong and dull. 2. ... The cotton fiber is strong, lustrous, silky and creamy brown-white in color. 3. Egyptian Cotton These cotton fibers are light brown, fine, strong and 32-38 mm in length. 4. ... Cotton Yarn Spinning mills Cotton is first sent to the spinning mills, where it goes through certain machines to make fiber. ...

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Cotton is known to be to be the most important and widely used fiber ever known to man, as it is used for thousands of things. ... Why go through the troubles of allergic reactions when you can have a highly absorbent natural fiber such as hemp, cotton, or wool? ... Also, respiratory disease has been linked to the inhalation of wool, cotton, and synthetic fiber dusts in the industrial settings where these fibers are made, but not to this date to the actual finished products. ... Elastic yarns are made with a core of either natural rubber fibers or lycra spandex with cotton wrapped around it...

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With the current method of cleaning cotton, there involved too much hand labor. It took ten hours to clean three pounds of seed from the short-staple cotton fiber (Wilson 80). ... The gin had spiked teeth mounted on a boxed revolving cylinder which, when turned by a crank, pulled the cotton fiber through small slotted openings to separate the seeds from the lint. ... The cotton gin allowed the seeds to be removed mechanically and rapidly, and eventually led cotton to become the cheapest and most widely used textile fabric in the world. ... A rumor was also started that the Whitney gin damage...

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Before the invention of the cotton gin, cotton fiber was literally picked apart from the seeds by hand. ... The invention of the Cotton Gin, by Eli Whitney, in 1793 was a marvelous innovation that dramatically increased the supply of cotton fiber. ... After learning that the tedious and time-consuming task of picking the seeds out of cotton fiber blocked the commercial production of short-staple, green-seed cotton, he decided he wanted to create a machine that would do the job. By April 1793, Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of c...

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Hemp is an easy crop to grow, and its fibers can be easily extracted from its stalk. ... Two to three tons of fiber can be processed in an hour. ... Annually, one acre of hemp can produce an equivalent amount of fiber as two to three acres of cotton. Hemp is preferable over cotton. It can be used to make a product is stranger and softer than cotton. ...

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It is a herbaceous annual related to cotton and okra and a member of the mallow family which originated in West Africa. ... It produces 5-10 tons of dry fiber per acre. ... The outer fiber is called "bast." ... The refined bast fibers measure 2.6 mm and are similar to the best softwood fibers used to make paper. ... The whole kenaf plant is then processed in a mechanical fiber separator similar to a cotton gin. ...

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One of the most important of these crops was cotton. Cotton was used for everything from clothing to sails for ships. Now that there was more cotton, people wanted to find ways to turn it into useful products more quickly. ... These inventions facilitated the handling of large quantities of harvested cotton. ... Cotton king The father of the factory system was Richard Arkwright. ...

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Currently, recycled tree paper is manufactured from both virgin-tree fibers and recycled fibers with one exception: that is 100% post-consumer paper, which is made from 100% recycled fibers. Therefore, trees are cut to make most recycled paper, whereas recycled hemp paper comes from 100% recycled fiber. ... This however, can not be said for soft wood trees (paper-making trees) or cotton plants. The amount of chemicals needed to manufacture products from hemp are slim to none due to the natural cream color of the fiber, thus there is no need for bleaching. ...

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The spinning jenny was a machine that could spin wool or cotton fiber into thread. ... With the new mills cam the demand for cotton to spin into thread, therefore leading into the cotton gin. The cotton gin was a machine that "cleaned" cotton by removing the seeds. ... One disease that killed many people was the cotton cough. Working with cotton and with the machines, there were tiny pieces of cotton flying around in the air. ...

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Another very important use of hemp would be the use of fibers for clothes, paper, or wood. ... Its paper use could help preserve tree life because one acre of hemp can produce as much usable fiber as 4 acres of trees or two acres of cotton. ... Having read the previous information, you can see that hemp can be made from almost any product including wood, cotton, or petroleum. ... Hemp stems are 80% hurds (pulp by-product after the hemp fiber is removed from the plant). ... These strong plant fiber construction materials could replace dry wall and wood paneling. ...

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Until the 1930s, the hemp plant had served for centuries as one of the world's most valuable sources of fiber. ... Continuum Hemp paper is made with 50 percent hemp fiber and 50 percent recovered cotton rag, elemental chlorine-free. More than a decade ago, Mississippi farmers recognized that the big-three rotation - corn, cotton and soybeans - needed another crop to make Delta agriculture more viable into the next century. ... Department of Agriculture as the most viable agricultural source of fiber for paper. ... "If we can do that, kenaf can compete on a more even footing with ...

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It acts as a shield against electromagnectic fields, it filters 95 % of ultraviolet rays, its wear and tear resistance is more than 30% compared to other fibers like cotton. ... It is therefore well worth reviewing the history of this textile fiber that was once used quite widely and that now has been all but neglected because of the censures affecting it. ... The spread and use of this plant as a textile fiber must be attributed, however, to the Etruscans who mostly used it to make clothing. ...

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(Compton's Encyclopedia, Eli Whitney) There were two types of cottons grown on plantations: "A black-seed, long-staple cotton was easily cleaned, but it grew only near the coast, while a green-seed, short-staple variety grew in inland areas but resisted cleaning since its fiber stuck to the seed." (Compton's) "Before cotton can be used, the fibers must be separated from the seeds." (Compton's) It takes about one day to get a pound of cotton if the fibers are being separated by hand. ... Whitney based his renderings never having seen raw cotton. ... His cotton-cleaning invention ...

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Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin - In the late 18th century, the demand for cotton grew. The southerners produced it slowly because the cotton fibers were difficult to separate from the seeds. Eli Whitney invented a machine, the cotton gin, which could perform this process quickly and efficiently. The gin is significant because it brought slavery back into the picture, firmly fixing it as a characteristic of the south, and it revolutionized cotton production. ...

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Another use of hemp that actually dates back thousands of years is the creation of clothing and various other textiles from its fibers. There are two main types of fibers in the hemp plant: the bast fibers and the hurds. The bast fibers are better suited for production and it's the need for those fibers that fueled much of the hemp industry before its prohibition. Hemp can be grown organically without the use of pesticides thanks to its natural resiliency, whereas cotton is an extremely destructive crop that, according to the hemp industries association, uses roughly 25% of the worlds pes...

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They experienced to use yarns by taking fibers off from flax plant and wools from ships. ... The clothing industry had enhanced more with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. Cotton gins separate the fibers from the seeds, which caused the increase of production. ... Designers used natural fibers, which were linen, wool, silk, and cotton. ... Rayon, invented 1910, was the first artificial fiber. ...

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Hemp was an important crop for the early colonists as early as 1629 and remained so until Eli Whitney introduced the cotton gin. ... In 1793 the invention of the cotton gin made the separation cotton fiber from the hull easier and far less expensive. The wide availability of cotton fiber reduced the need for hemp as a fiber for clothing and thus reduced the profit resulting in many farmers switching from hemp cultivation to a more lucrative endeavor. ...

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The cotton gin was a device designed for the purpose of removing the seeds from raw cotton. ... The entire goal of the machine was to put in picked cotton and end up with seeded pure cotton. ... Before the invention of this cotton gin, it took a very long time to separate the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. ... The bottle neck in growing this crop had always been the labor needed to remove the seeds from the cotton fibers. ... Thus he created the cotton gin. ...

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Nearly 90% of the world's paper before 1883 was made entirely from hemp based fiber. In the early 1930's the U.S. department of agriculture wanted to make all of its paper from hemp based fiber. However the project was put on hold until someone could find a cheaper and more effective way of separating the hemp fiber from the pulp. ... The fiber when combined with the pulp and stalk of the marijuana plant can be used to make paper. ... Hemp is warmer then cotton, easier to produce and takes up much less room. ...

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They described how cotton is important to their economies, and how in some years total subsidies in rich countries amount to almost as much as the value of world trade in cotton. ... The US said that distortions in cotton are not only caused by subsidies in the sector, for example, Industrial policies that support production for synthetic fibers, high tariff on finished products and good harvest caused by favorable weather are also important reasons for falling cotton. The US proposed discussing how to deal with distortions throughout the production chain, including subsidies, tariff barriers ...

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Before 1883, nearly ninety percent of the world's paper supply was manufactured out of hemp -based fiber. ... Department of Agriculture proposed the idea of making paper from hemp-based fiber, but production had to be put on hold until someone invented a machine that would separate hemp pulp from the fibers cheaply. ... It's a comfortable material that's safe for the environment, and is economically available; it's softer than wool and cotton, and also warmer than cotton. ... Cotton on the other hand, needs large amounts of fertilizer to grow well. Over one half of all ...

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However, according to the website, Conserve a Tree, paper has been made from wood only since the mid 1800s; before the 1850s, paper was made from recycled linen and cotton rags. ... The down side is that CIWMB tells us that even if all paper was recycled, there would still be a need for virgin paper sources, as individual paper fibers can only be recycled 5 to 10 times. ... "Additionally, the processing of tree-free fibers to produce pulp for paper-making requires considerable less energy and chemical input than does the processing of wood-based fibers. ... Kenaf belongs to the hibiscus fam...

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