Reality hit when they started looking for a fine cotton fabric and mother-of-pearl buttons.
The great majority of it was destined for Lancashire which (in turn) produced two-thirds of all the cotton fabric that was traded.
In summer, when the temperature soars to 45 degrees centigrade, soaking lengths of cotton fabric in a boiling vat of dye calls for a special kind of endurance.
They spread these films in alternate layers on top of sheets of cotton fabric and exposed the sandwich to ultraviolet light for 30 minutes to bond the layers covalently.
It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars, and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man.
This layer can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
Within days of our arrival, a turbaned craftsman had laid out a piece of local fabric with cotton shirts, wooden souvenirs and Tuareg silver knives.
The program was to be overseen by the USDA but administered by a board of growers, like 20 similar programs for products including cotton ("the fabric of our lives") and pork ("the other white meat").
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They built a thin layer, or "nanostructure, " using minute particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material and can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
Because American Giant's supply chain can be traced all the way back to the US cotton fields, with fabric being specially woven and dyed for it, getting a new shipment of raw materials wasn't as simple as making a phone call and waiting for an overnight delivery.
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The Iron Duke was the first machine in the UK used to roll sheet rubber and cotton together and vulcanise them to make waterproof fabric.
He showered her with gifts, starting with a 6-yard-long piece of bazin fabric, the hand-dyed, polished cotton which is the mainstay of Malian fashion.
Cotton clothing also requires more energy to maintain than polyester, since the synthetic fabric can be washed at a lower temperature, can hang to dry and doesn't need ironing.
In tie-dying, bundles of ramie threads are bound tightly with cotton before dying so as to produce a geometric or floral pattern when the thread is woven into fabric using a simple back-strap loom.
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