skip navigation  The Story of CottonThe Story of Cotton
Everyone’s favorite pair of jeans and jammies started out as
bunch of single celled fibers growing on tiny cottonseeds. The
cotton plant is a shrub that is native to tropical and
subtropical climates around the world. The cotton fiber is a
collection of single cells made of almost pure celluloseThe
structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants.
Wood pulp and cotton provides most of the cellulose for
industrial uses. Cotton is almost 90% cellulose.. These fibers’
naturally springy structure gives them lots of strength,
durability, and absorbency. When dried, they form flat, twisted,
ribbon-like shapes perfect for spinning fine yarn and clothing
you and all your friends.  Cotton evolved on almost every
continent, but it took cotton from the opposite ends of the
earth to create the plant we use today. A one-in-a-million
chance meeting of an American plant with an African plant (or
Asian, we’re not sure!) produced the cotton ancestor that gi