This is what fabric looks like before you buy it/100% cotton
 

From the field cotton growing, the cotton gin, and loaded on the truck.

when I stopped by the gin, I did not see Eli Whitney.

We have Cotton Ginning Days here. Big festival.

Yep, we have that around here about this time of year. My grandpa used to grow cotton. I remember standing in the cotton field next to his house and the cotton was taller than me. I think it's grown shorter now for the cotton picker machines.

How fascinating! Thanks for showing me something I have not seen!

Brings back childhood memories of cotton growing in the fields in South Carolina. Of course we picked it by hand then.
Thanks for the pictures. Sandy 64

Look at all that quilting fabric lol

thanks for the tour. have not seen this before.

Very interesting. I've not seen those type of photos. I think everyone I know my age has picked cotton but me! I was a city girl growing up but am all country now. I stopped on my way to work one morning at a cotton field that had no fence around it and picked a couple so I could say I have picked cotton. lol

What a sweetheart you are for posting it so those of us who can't travel south can see how it truly is done. How marvelous. I bet it is a very dirty job, but how wonderful to see the work that goes into our fabric. Thank you so much.

So glad ya'll have liked the pics. I wonder how many yards is on one truck load when processed?