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...

• Word Count: 862
• Approx Pages: 3

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...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3

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. ...

• Word Count: 571
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 825
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 274
• Approx Pages: 1

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...

• Word Count: 665
• Approx Pages: 3

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. ...

• Word Count: 2677
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 2395
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Fiberglass, metal foil, rock wool fibers (mineral wool), and certain plastics are used for insulation because they are poor conductors of heat. ... The materials include: butter, cotton, fiberglass, newspaper, plastic, saw dust, and suspended ceiling tile. ... The butter's temperature was 59 •XÆ'|Æ'nÆ'n„he cotton's temperature was 49 •XÆ'|Æ'nÆ'nThe fiber glass' temperature was 51 •X. ... The cotton's temperature was fifth highest, and I expected it to be fourth. ...

• Word Count: 1001
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Repeat steps 2 and 3 on remaining organisms * Wet mounts may require a few strands of cotton fibers to slow the organisms Discussion and Analysis This lab examined the multiple types of phyla within the kingdom Protista. ...

• Word Count: 455
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The fiber of hemp is used for paper, fuel, food and medicine. ... Hemp is one of the most environmental friendly fibers on the world, requiring no pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers. ... Fabrics made from hemp insulate better, are more absorbent, and more durable than cotton. ...

• Word Count: 662
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The darts are made from sharpened fibers and balanced on the end with either cotton, which they grow in the villages, or the fiber off the kapok tree. ... A flexible piece of wood designs the bow, and is strung with a hand spun fiber found in the rain forest. ... Along with tobacco, cotton is also an important cultigen. Cotton yarn is used for hammock manufacturing, as well as clothing (Chagnon 1997: 68). ... Women also use cotton yarn to make a small waistband that is very pretty, although covers nothing. ...

• Word Count: 3732
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

In the 1600's, cotton cloth imported from India had become popular and so British merchants organized a cotton industry for themselves. They developed a pulling out system in which raw cotton was brought to peasant families who spun it into cloth, and then skilled artisans finished and dyed the cloth. Under the putting out system, production was very slow and as the demand for cloth grew, inventors came up with ways to make the cotton industry more efficient. ... Along with dust and cotton fibers, grease, oil, gas and lime were perpetually being both ingested and inhaled by the children....

• Word Count: 1647
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"Hand spinners in India required 50,000 hours to produce 100 pounds of cotton yarn. ... The owners of new weaving mills continued to provide weavers with cotton thread and paid them for the finished product. ... India's industrial position was reversed as she became a supplier of raw cotton to Britain and an importer of machine-manufactured cotton textiles from Britain. Britain's new mills required unprecedented quantities of good quality cotton. ... The many physical dangers inherent in the early factories might include working in mills with temperatures of more than 80 degre...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These are two metals that come from the gun and thanks to the gunshot residue test, it is easy to just stroke cotton swabs with nitric acid on the webbing between the thumb and trigger finger. ... Take fibers for instance. ... In the case of the Atlanta child murders o f1979 to 1981, fibers played a significant role. Greenish-yellow carpet fibers and a different fiber that was violet in color were found on many of the bodies. ... They found matching green and violet fibers in the home of arrested suspect Wayne Williams. ...

• Word Count: 4736
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

The Jamestown settlers did bring the plant to Virginia in 1611, and cultivated it for its fiber, the hemp, which was used to make rope. ... George Washington was growing hemp at Mount Vernon three years later, presumably for its fiber. ... (Andrews 34) Washington's August 7 diary entry clearly indicates that he was cultivating the plant for medicinal purposes as well for it's fiber. (Andrews 34) he might have separated the males from the females to get better fiber, but his phrase rather too late suggests that he wanted to complete the separation before the female plants were fertili...

• Word Count: 3100
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

In textiles, the cotton gin was the first technological innovation followed by the flying shuttle in 1733 was one of the first major improvements for production. Also, the spinning Jenny, water-loom, and the separation of seeds from their fibers saved time Production increased greatly because the weaving and spinning of cotton and wool went faster. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5

Next are the Jacquard Woven Wool designs, followed by Jacquard Woven Cotton. ... Cotton has been used since the nineteenth century; it is less expensive, and provides a smooth luster, and fidelity of color that compares very favorably to wool. Today's Jacquard woven cotton tapestries cost about 25% less than those woven in wool. Today's reproduction woven tapestries, whether wool or cotton, use colorfast dyes, that under normal conditions fade only slightly over many generations. ... The light strikes more flatly and evenly with cotton and silk-screened tapestries. ...

• Word Count: 3570
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Manufacturing was often done in people's homes which were known as the cotton industry which used manual labor and hand tools/basic machines. ... At the time England was talented in the making of wool and cotton cloth. ... "The Japanese silk industry, an export staple, was already suffering from the advent of artificial silk-like fibers produced by Western chemical giants. ...

• Word Count: 1598
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Canvas is the worlds strongest cloth material out there do to the cannabis" tough fibers. Cotton can thus be reduced in production and harmful pesticides used to cultivate these crops will be eliminated due to cannabis not requiring pesticides. 4. ...

• Word Count: 1324
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I have chosen to cover the O.J. Simpson trial as my mystery examined. I was young when this trial was being held, so going into this assignment I didn't know much about the case. I felt this was better, for the fact that I wouldn't go into the writing with a bias opinion. The verdict was not guilty ...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Global Apparel Sourcing for US----The post January 01, 2005 scenario. INTRODUCTION: The topic of my research paper is "Global Apparel Sourcing for US----The post January 01, 2005 scenario- January 01, 2005 is the date when free trade agreement of WTO will come into effect and all trade barriers---quotas, duties, tariffs-will be either eliminated or subjected to reduction under a time frame of a few years. In this paper I have attempted to investigate and conclude the optimal trade policy US should implement in order to achieve maximum advantage for its economy without undermining or ...

• Word Count: 6737
• Approx Pages: 27
• Grade Level: High School

Fuels can be made by extracting oils from seeds and the hemp fiber could be used to make ropes, clothing, or paper of a higher quality because of the strength of the fibers.1 Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in Canada. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America (the 1920s) Introduction Mass Production: the result was the creation of a New America, on e in which individualism was sacrificed to conformity as a part of the price to be paid for a new era of abundance. The 1920s, often seen as a time of escape and...

• Word Count: 2034
• Approx Pages: 8

Arabic Calligraphy Many people in the Western world have difficulty understanding the special status of calligraphy in Asia and the Middle East. For the East Asians and Muslims, however, calligraphy has more status than any other art form, although the reasons are quite different. For the Chinese...

• Word Count: 2239
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School