Ginning, blowing, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting, sewing, ironing, shipping and trucking — all the steps it took to turn some cotton bolls into your T-shirt. Those ...

African American woman in front of open washing machine holding clean white towel to face - MAYA LAB/Shutterstock Cotton is one of the most popular and versatile fabrics in the world, known for its ...

At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor. Jacket ...