Color cotton - the origin of natural color cotton

Whether from the perspective of evolution or according to archaeological research, Ancient cotton fibers were mostly colored. After long-term artificial selection, white fiber cotton gradually became the dominant type. In fact, in addition to wild and wild cotton, there are our four major cultivated cotton species: Asian cotton, African cotton, upland cotton and island cotton, which are cotton varieties or varieties of colored fiber. In Chinese history, more than 3.3 million pieces of purple cotton woven from purple yellow cotton (Asian cotton) in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were exported to Europe in 1819. It was once the fashionable clothes of gentlemen in Fengmo Britain in the 1819th century. This is the earliest record of China's planting and export of colored cotton.

The cultivation of natural colored cotton can be traced back to the same long history as ordinary white cotton. Indians in central and South America began to cultivate and use natural colored cotton as early as 5000 years ago. Peru has the longest history of planting natural colored cotton in the world. In the 19th century, due to the rise of mechanical textile industry and the wide planting of ordinary white cotton, especially the development of dyeing technology, natural colored cotton gradually withdrew from people's vision. In the middle of last century, with the deterioration of environmental quality and the imbalance of ecological balance, countries all over the world have carried out and produced research on textile products beneficial to health and environmental protection. At the same time, in order to overcome the "green trade barrier"

Countries around the world have successively carried out the production and research of "green, ecological and environmental protection" natural fibers. The production and research of natural fibers such as natural colored cotton came into being, which set off a wave of the revival of natural colored cotton.