I know that cotton is a plant and the white puffy part has seeds in it. People used to pick the cotton bolls into big sacks - I think there is a macine that harvests the bolls nos. I don. ' t at what point the seeds are picked out. Wonder if any pesticides o herbicides are used on the plsnts during the growing season.and if so, how much residual is on the harvested cotton.
Somehow those fibers need too be spun into threads, and those threads are knitted or woven into cloth. Then the dying processes - I have no idea what chemicals are needed for the different colors. Then any finished that might be done/added.
And then getting it from place to place - and where it is warehoused.
And to think allthat was done " at home " not so long ago