A historical perspective ... cotton's first five Millennia

摘要

When you look up "cotton" in the encyclopedia, you will find: batiste, broadcloth, buckram, calico, cambric, chambray, chenille, chintz, corduroy, cretonne, crinolinne, denim, dimity, duck, gabardine, gauze, gingham, huckaback, khaki, lisle, madras,muslin nainsook, organdy, percale, pique poplin, seersucker, Swiss ticking, voile. In addition to the sheer variety of cotton cloths, that list makes another important point: cotton is universal. Many of the above come from the French. Others are Indian,Greek, German, Spanish, Central Asian, Iraqi, Italian, Malaysian and Persian.