cotton

Cotton is soft and it is strong. Gardeners and farmers grow it in rows of small shrubs - it's not very hard to do. When the cotton is ready to be picked, the shrubs look festive, adorned with balls of white fluff. There are numerous fabrics made of cotton, many clothing industries based on cotton. But even the gardener at home can make fabric I suspect. Wouldn't a spinning wheel work to make the threads and yarns? Certain plants can be used to make natural dyes. One could create cloth with a small loom - or something as simple as two sticks (known as knitting needles). I've written before of the researchers who produced varieties of cotton in different colors, but unfortunately, have never again seen any references to their work, or what happened to the dusty blue, mossy green, tan, and dusky gold bolls of cotton.