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Cotton textile production was primarily concentrated in Catalonia and by the mid-19th century, led to Catalonia becoming the main industrial region of Spain. In addition a large cotton textile factory existed in Malaga in latter half of the 19th century.
4. Juni 2024 · Cotton, seed-hair fiber of several species of plants of the genus Gossypium, belonging to the hibiscus, or mallow, family. Cotton, one of the world’s leading agricultural crops, is plentiful and economically produced, making cotton products relatively inexpensive.
Tells the story of cotton -- where and how it's grown, processed and woven into cloth -- in simple terms. No one knows exactly how old cotton is. Scientists searching caves in Mexico found bits of cotton bolls and pieces of cotton cloth that proved to be at least 7,000 years old.
Textile history is almost as old as human civilization, and as time has passed, the history of textiles has been more enriched. Silk weaving was introduced to India c. 400 AD, whereas cotton spinning dates back to 3000 BC in India.
23. Juli 2010 · The spinning world: a global history of cotton textiles, 1200–1850, edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi, Oxford, Oxford University Press for Pasold Research Fund, 2009, xiii + 489 ...
- John Singleton
- 2010
The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated to the fifth millennium BC have been found in the Indus Valley civilization, as well as fabric remnants dated back to 4200 BC in Peru .
Cotton became a versatile and highly valued fiber for making textiles, spreading across the Old and New Worlds. The American South became the world’s leading exporter of cotton in the nineteenth century, relying on slave labor.
