Search Results for: Clothing of man-made fibres
that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today. current estimates for world production are about million tonnes or million bales annually, accounting for % of the world's arable land. india is the world's largest
, cultivation of the indigenous cotton species gossypium barbadense has been dated, from a find in ancon, to c. bc, [ ] and was the backbone of the development of coastal cultures such as the norte chico , moche , and nazca . cotton was grown upriver, made into nets, and traded with fishing villages...
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