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Sneak Peek: History of Fashion Through Textiles
History of Fashion Through Textiles is a 4 module unit study covering cotton, silk, wool and flax. It describes the process from raw material to cloth, including the history of the use of the cloth. Activities within the unit study include math, history, science, art and more making it a cross-curricular unit of study.
Here is a sneak peek:
Module 3: Cotton
Cotton is a natural fiber that grows on cotton plants. It is one of the most widely used natural fibers. There are four main types of cotton: Gossypium arboretum (Asiatic cotton); Gossypium herbaceum (Arabian cotton); Gossypium barbandense (Sea island or American Pima) and Gossypium hirsutum (Upland cotton).
Fibers of the cotton plant are called raw cotton which is made into textiles and then clothing. Cotton plants grow in the sub-tropics which are warm areas of the world just north and south of the equator. China is the biggest producer of cotton and the United States is the biggest exporter of cotton. India is the third largest producer of cotton but sells very little of its raw cotton to other countries. In fact, the textile industry in India is so large that they need to import raw cotton from other countries.
In the United States cotton is grown mostly in the southern states of Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina and Louisiana.
On this United States map, colour in the states where cotton is grown.
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