Cotton
fibre can be woven or knitted into fabrics such as velvet, corduroy, chambray,
velour, jersey and flannel. In addition
to textile products like underwear, socks and t-shirts, cotton is also used in fishnets,
coffee filters, book binding and archival paper. Cotton is a food and a fibre crop. Cotton seed is fed to cattle and crushed to
make oil. This cottonseed oil is used
for cooking and in products like soap, margarine, emulsifiers, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals,
rubber and plastics.
Malaysia
has such a warm weather. It could be hot and it could be cold. So, in this
situation, materials for daily wear is important as it could make us, the
wearer to be in comfortable. Thus, cotton is considered the most suitable
material to make daily wear especially the t shirt. To begin with, of course cotton
is a soft, fluffy staple fibre that grows in a boll, or protective case, around
the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the family of Malvaceae.
The fiber is almost pure cellulose. That is the reason why it is suitable for
people who lives in the warm weather like Malaysia.
Of
course, there are the history behind the cotton manufacturing. The use of
cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton
fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and the Indus Valley
Civilization in Indian subcontinent between 6000 BC and 5000 BC. Although
cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered
the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most
widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.
Indeed,
the cotton itself has many benefits. Cotton fibre can be woven or knitted into
fabrics such as velvet, corduroy, chambray, velour, jersey and flannel. In addition to textile products like
underwear, socks and t-shirts, cotton is also used in fishnets, coffee filters,
book binding and archival paper. Cotton
is a food AND a fibre crop. Cotton seed
is fed to cattle and crushed to make oil.
This cottonseed oil is used for cooking and in products like soap,
margarine, emulsifiers, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, rubber and plastics.
The
uses of cotton as t shirt material is that it can be a good sweat absorber. Whenever
the wearer becomes sweat or perspired, the cotton material will absorb the
sweat and allow the wind to cool down the wearer’s body. This will avoid the
wearer from feeling hot and avoid from getting heat stroke especially in the
drought season in Malaysia. That is why, the cotton material always be the
first choice in the t shirt industry.
Other
than that, since Malaysia is a country with warm climate, it is suitable to
grow the cotton plant in here. Thus, despite of its rapid growth, the cotton is
easy available and the labour or the cost is cheap compared to the other
material. Of course, with its high demand from the customer, that is the reason
why the t shirt manufacturer will choose the cotton as their first choice to
produce a lot of t shirts.
