2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The woolly skins of wild animals that saved primitive man from the cold were replaced by plants whose fruits were not edible berries or fruits, but lumps of "wool". Clothes made from such plants were much more comfortable and beautiful
Two Homelands of Cotton Plant
Those who spent their childhood and youth in Uzbekistan know the true value of cotton clothes. After all, the low store price for satin and chintz in those years was partly provided by the free labor of schoolchildren and students who spent their holidays, and part of their school time, in cotton fields, collecting raw materials for these fabrics by hand.
We owe many useful plants to the American Indians, who have cultivated them since ancient times and simultaneously "passed on" their experience to the Europeans. These are everyone's favorite potatoes, golden ears of corn, red-cheeked tomatoes, eggplants, peppers … and cotton.
But, if most of the listed plants preferred to live only on the American continent, then cotton has been cultivated in India since ancient times, which gave a topic for scientific research, how this could happen.
In any case, the Europeans were just the successors of the achievements of ancient civilizations. And Cotton Plant has two Homelands today: Mexico and India.
White gold
Cotton or "White Gold" are rather short (3 to 5 cm long) white hairs with which the plant protected its seeds from the vicissitudes of the weather. Sometimes the hairs can change their traditional color, being cream or green.
Since the pod contains a lot of seeds, when the pod is ripe, it opens its shutters, it becomes like a bowl of ice cream or whipped cream. These boxes-bowls are assembled by hand, so that, after separating the hairs from the seeds, twist threads from them for weaving looms.
The longer and thinner the hairs, the more valuable the raw materials from which the fabrics are made. The Queen of Great Britain and the Empress of India, Victoria herself, appeared at royal receptions in outfits from the finest Indian calico. After all, the best Indian cotton fabrics were so thin that dresses made from such fabrics, like Orenburg downy shawls, were freely threaded through a woman's wedding ring.
In addition to fabrics, cotton plant provides a person with edible oil, light honey with a delicate taste, medical cotton wool, and heals a number of ailments.
Cotton tree
Among the variety of plants of the Malvaceae family, to which the above-described Cotton plant belongs, the Cotton tree grows in the tropics. One such tree can replace a small Cotton plantation, saving time on moving around the plantations. True, the height of 60-70 meters has its own pitfalls.
In addition to the fact that the tree is very tall, it is still armed with thorny large thorns located on large branches and a wide trunk. Since the collection of opening large (up to 15 cm in length) fruit-boxes is carried out manually, the work is no less time-consuming than picking cotton from bush plantations, and even traumatic.
The separation of the yellowish fluffy hairs from the walls of the capsules, similar to the hairs of Cotton, is also done manually. Since the chemical composition of Cottonwood fiber is not the same as Cottonwood, no thread is made from it.
But he has his own valuable qualities that people use in the production of various things. The water resistance, buoyancy and elasticity of the fibers are used to make lifebuoys and vests, which are supplied to tourists who are unsure of their swimming abilities, but who do not want to keep up with others heading to the coral reefs to admire the vibrant underwater fish kingdom.
The lightness of the fiber comes in handy when making soft toys for children; upholstered furniture for relaxation is stuffed with fiber. Fiber is used in construction when heat or sound insulation is required.
The oil obtained from the seeds is included in the soap or used as a soil fertilizer.
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