Cotton is a non-lustrous, short plant fiber. The fiber is very soft and it can be used for spinning, blending with other fibers, carding, weaving, and if combined with wool, a great fiber for felting as an accent. To dye cotton, use Fiber Reactive Dyes for Cellulose Fibers.
No one really knows when cotton was first used on textiles. Searching teams have found cotton bolls and cotton cloth inside caves in Mexico that prove to be at least 7,000 years old. Modern researchers analyzed the genomes of a cross-section of cotton seed samples from archaeological sites about 1,600 years old from Egypt.
Originally picked by hand, cotton is now harvested mechanically, although some hand picking of high-quality cotton still remains. The picked cotton is ginned (passed through a shaker) to separate the cotton fiber from the seed and then classed/graded. Cotton fibers are white, short, non-lustrous, and uniform, more so than other plant fibers. Sea-Island and Egyptian cotton are the longest variety compared to shorter varieties of upland origins. Cotton is used for many purposes and is relatively inexpensive. Care of this fiber is easy.

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