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You throw out a simple question but it could takes volumes to answer it! To summarise, cotton is known from about 2700 BC in India (its name comes from an Asiatic word..qutan) It spread from their to Middle East and them to Europe (first used in UK for candle wicks!). Peruvian cotton may be of a similar date and is thought to be a cross between the local wild cotton and domestic cotton brought across the Pacific by Pre-polynesian man. Any encyclopaedia would tell you far more. Kate Peck Kent's amazing 'Cultivation and Weaving of Cotton in the Pre-historic SW USA', (1957) and M.D.C. Crawford's 'The Heritage of Cotton', (1948) are also two sources. peter collingwood, http://www.petercollingwood.co.uk Send private reply to peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
