Domestic Cotton Top

Having cotton grown domestically lessens our environmental footprint and allows us to support our American farmers.

Cotton is considered the fiber of summer. It's cool, lightweight, and makes wonderful clothes and soft baby blankets! It is a non-lustrous, short plant fiber, it is very soft and 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.
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.