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Natural Fiber - Natural Color

Established in 1929 as a working cotton gin, The Cotton Gin is a unique shopping adventure in an atmosphere of bygone days. From the attic to cellar and ginning building to seed room, The Cotton Gin is chock-full of textiles loomed in North Carolina, nostalgia from Currituck's waterfowl heritage, and country crafts and accessories. The Cotton Gin is a country-market kind of place, an unusual setting for a most delightful shopping experience. We're at the hub of excitement, tinged with a touch of the past, colorful, rustic and quaint.
Growing colored cotton began thousands of years ago, around 2700 B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and ...

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viable long-fibered colored cotton. Realizing the potential importance of colored cotton as an alternative to using solvent-based dyes, she was determined to succeed in producing a marketable fashion raw material.
The final result was Fox FiberŽ, a strong long-fibered colored cotton, which can be readily woven into beautiful cloth. This naturally colored cotton is not only free of dyes, but it is also grown organically. Known as "Certified Organic Cotton", it is grown in fields which have been free of pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers for at least three years. The cloth made from organically grown cotton creates an alternative for health. Being chemically sensitive, I became acutely aware of the benefits of wearing clothing made from natural fibers. I was inspired to design women's apparel out of this unique cloth not only grown and processed without chemicals, but because the color is natural, no toxic formaldehyde or solvent-based dyes come in contact with ...

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