A Commonplace Book

Category: cotton...

  • Egyptian cotton sheets, softened with fabric softener
  • cotton plants up to 20 feet high in the subtropics with creamy-white flowers that turn deep pink before falling off and leaving cotton bolls
  • the cotton bolls bursting open, revealing masses of seed-hair fibers
  • high-quality Sea Island, Egyptian, and pima (long-staple cottons)
  • ginned cotton, shipped in bales
  • cotton looms interlacing the tense warp yarns with the weft or filling yarns
  • napped or sueded cotton T-shirts
  • "Cotton is king."
  • Summertime and the living is easy, fish are jumping, and the cotton is high. (Ira Gershwin)
  • cotton plants bobbing with the weight of new bloom on their stalks

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