Early History of Cotton

  The idea of using these seed hairs as textile fibers came at an early stage in textile manufacture . Cotton fabrics were made by the Ancient Egyptian and the earliest of Chinese civilization .

    Samples of cotton materials have been found in Indian tombs dating back to the year 3000 a.c.

     There is some evidence that cotton may have been used in Egypt in 12,000 a.c before the use of flax was known.

    Cotton has been plated and grown for commercial use in Virginia since 1607.

     In 1793 , Eli Whitney the cotton gin ,a machine for removing the fibers from cotton seeds and American entered to the world market as a cotton producer.