Untreated cotton fabric absorbs water droplets (top) and cotton fabric treated with a form of cottonseed oil repels water (bottom). WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — More than half of the 7.5 million bales ...

If buying it proves to be too costly, you can always make the fabric yourself. But in order to make your own fabric, you'll need to use a Loom. Once you've built the loom you'll be able to put certain ...

Pexels Most people treat an old t-shirt as a problem to solve. It’s faded, pilled, maybe a size too small, and it gets tossed in a bin without much thought. What happens next is more ...

These days it’s hard to imagine that fabrics were ever made out of anything other than cotton or synthetic fibers, yet it wasn’t too long ago that hemp and flax-based fabrics — linen — were the rule ...

Cotton USA technical consultant Stewart Milligan discusses the role of cotton innovation in the market.