Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Social Forces Vol. 4, No. 1, Sep., 1925 Cotton-Cloth: A Type Study of the Social... Cotton-Cloth: A ...

Evidence of cotton being grown, spun and woven into cloth can be traced as far back as 3,000 BC in the valleys of the Indus and Nile rivers of Pakistan and Egypt. The invention of the cotton ...

This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile City" (appropriate for grades 8-12). Using this collection of primary ...

What made cotton so desirable? In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco, were depleting farmland and dropping in value. At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ...