What made cotton so desirable? In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco, were depleting farmland and dropping in value. At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ...

Xinjiang cotton is some of the best fabric in the world. It's also, human rights campaigners say, produced by forced labour. Some Western brands have removed it from their supply chains ...

There’s also more fabric options to choose from than ever before. Cotton will always be No. 1 in my book, but linen and naturally derived fibers like rayon (from bamboo or eucalyptus ...

“The cotton gin in this county has been a huge change for the county, because it’s allowed us to raise the acres that we want ...

The U.S. cotton industry is projected to produce its second-lowest crop in a decade. Texas farmers are facing similar hurdles.

There, in Mississippi and South Carolina and Arkansas and Alabama, they’d worked on lush, green plantations, where God took care of the irrigation and cotton was king. Now, precisely because of their ...

Cotton (plant) Highly absorbent so is comfortable to wear, strong and durable, easy to care for but can shrink and has poor elasticity so creases Most clothing, bed linen, upholstery fabric and in ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called Vice President Harris “the ayatollahs’ handpicked candidate’ in an interview on Sunday morning. “From the very beginning, they’ve appeased and conciliated ...

An interview between CNN host Kaitlan Collins and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) became tense on Tuesday after Cotton repeatedly laid into Collins and accused her of misrepresenting a Senate vote to ...