History of Organic Cotton Clothing

Organic Cotton farming has a long and interesting history.  It has been a farmed product now for almost 7,000 years and it was believed to have been grown as early as 12,000 B.C. Cotton fragments have been found from Mexico to Pakistan and pretty much everywhere in between.

 

In the Indus River Ballery, Pakistan today, organic cotton was grown, woven, and spun to produce organic cotton clothing, which brought merchants from Arab and Europe around 800 AD, who purchased it and took it back to their homelands.

 

When Columbus arrived in 1492 in the American continent, he found the Bahama Islands were already growing cotton.  Once the Americans became established, huge organic cotton plantations began to sprout up throughout the warmer climates and organic clothing was soon being made in the Americas.

 

Since the early years, organic cotton has grown, been worked, and produced many fine organic cloths that designers have used to create modern clothing that is durable, and natural.  Today, pretty much everything used in homes, vehicles, or clothing has organic fabric in it somewhere.  Some people’s entire wardrobes are made of organically grown cottons.

 

Today old traditional methods for weaving cotton are once again being used with both weavers and knitters creating natural eco friendly clothing that is soft, subtle, and for many uses. Another reason people are purchasing organic clothing is because they don’t want to have the pesticides of conventional organic cotton on their skin.

 

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