Evidence of cotton being grown, spun and woven into cloth can be traced as far back as 3,000 BC in the valleys of the Indus and Nile rivers of Pakistan and Egypt. The invention of the cotton ...

This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile City" (appropriate for grades 8-12). Using this collection of primary ...

Thika Cloth Mills, one of Kenya's largest textile industries, is spearheading a bold initiative to revive the cotton sector ...