How is cotton made?

Answer 1

it's not made. it's grown. on cotton plants. After harvesting the "rough" cotton they simply process it to remove the seeds, elongate or stretch the fibers and finally to seperate them into single strands of textile ready cotton.

Answer 2

The cotton plant flower (the boll) is a mass of fibers surrounding oily seeds. The seeds are separated out by carding (pullking between two pin-covered paddles) or running through a "gin" (short for engine, originally designed by Eli Whitney). The seeds are processed into cottonseed oil, which is a good lubricant, wood finish and medicinal.
The separated cotton fibers are collected on a spinner and spun together into long continuous threads (by overlapping the ends of the fibers) that can then be woven into cloth on a loom.
There are many different varieties of cotton, some have longer fibers (like Egyptian Cotton) which makes for an exceptionally strong thread, and so for a very high quality cloth.

Answer 3

Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. The fiber is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile, which is the most widely used natural-fiber cloth in clothing today. The English name descends from the Arabic word al qutun, (whence also came the Spanish word algodón) meaning cotton fiber. Africa and South America are large providers of cotton.

Cotton fiber (once processed to remove seeds and traces of wax, protein, etc.) consists of nearly pure cellulose, a natural polymer. Cotton production is very efficient, in the sense that, ten percent or less of the weight is lost in subsequent processing to convert the raw cotton bolls into pure fiber. The cellulose is arranged in a way that gives cotton fibers a high degree of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fibre is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs. When the cotton boll (seed case) is opened the fibres dry into flat, twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for spinning into a fine yarn.

Answer 4

Egyptian cotton is considered to be one of the best types of cotton

Answer 5

Cotton is a natural fiber. It's harvested.

Answer 6

I think the fluffy white stuff (raw cotton) has to be taken from the bud, put into a pile that's taken to a machine which will remove all attached bits of root and stalk, and dthen stretched....

Answer 7

from cotton plants, its flower or seeds arround with cotton

Answer 8

It is the fibres that surround the cotton seed

Answer 9

from plants

Answer 10

it's a plant