{"id":1243,"date":"2016-07-05T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:01:26","slug":"the-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/blog\/the-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Among the plant fibers, cotton is by far the most widespread.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The name comes from the Arabic word <em>katun<\/em>,&nbsp;which means &#8220;conquered land&#8221;.&nbsp;Already cultivated in India and Peru before the second millennium BC, it was introduced by the Saracens in Sicily in the ninth century and then throughout Europe about in 1300.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1179266.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Considered an exotic product and hard to spin, it has long been considered a luxurious fabric like silk.&nbsp;Famous in Europe were the fine painted Indian cotton fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>On their arrival in America, Europeans found new species of cotton grown in Mexico, Peru and Brazil.&nbsp;The eighteenth century techniques made it possible to intensify the cultivation, particularly in the South of the USA, with the invention of the cotton gin machine in 1792.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the cultivation is widespread in tropical and warm temperate regions all over the world.&nbsp;The larger crops are in Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan and Eastern Europe, where they grow the best quality, or in countries with a wet season and a dry as the United States, India, Chile, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton is by far the most important of the plant fiber and is still the most widely used in the textile fiber.<\/p>\n<p>The fiber is made of white thin filaments, long two or three centimeters obtained from the mature capsule of the cotton plant.&nbsp;The most valuable qualities are long fiber, white, with silk-like sheen.&nbsp;After harvesting and ginning,&nbsp;the cotton is carded and combed so as to eliminate all impurities.&nbsp;Those long by 10 mm up are an excellent raw material for yarns; shorter ones are used for the manufacture of rayon and celluloid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-asset-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king of fibers&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_additional_keywords":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":["index"],"rank_math_breadcrumb_title":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_facebook_image_id":0,"rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_twitter_image_id":0,"rank_math_twitter_card_type":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[394,108],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends","tag-cotton","tag-mens-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}