by nealw | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN CHILD LABOUR “Every child has the right to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s...
by nealw | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN A BRIEF HISTORY OF COTTON Scientists are divided as to how old cotton is. No one is quite sure where the cotton we use today originated from. Plants of different species similar to...
by nealw | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN CONVENTIONAL COTTON: PESTICIDES There can be no better argument in favour of producing organic cotton than the fact that it does not use pesticides and insecticides. One of the most...
by nealw | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN Cotton and the Industrial Revolution Below is a short blog, that attempts to portray the inhuman conditions that existed in cotton weaving factories in the English Midlands in the time...
by nealw | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN PREPARING THE SOIL, GROWING THE COTTON, HARVESTING THE COTTON, WHAT COMES NEXT IN THE COTTON FABRIC STORY GINNING IS THE NEXT STEP IN THE TEXTILE PROCESS, AFTER THE COTTON HAS BEEN...
by nealw | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN COTTON: THE THIRSTY CROP Muslin is a soft, fine cotton fabric with a plain weave. In plain weave cloth, the warp and weft threads cross at right angles, aligned so they form a simple...