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 ...
Xinjiang cotton is some of the best fabric in the world. It's also, human rights campaigners say, produced by forced labour. Some Western brands have removed it from their supply chains ...