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Start

TO

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Second Series

Everyday
Products

FROM

Cotton

TO

T-Shirt

ROBIN NELSON

Copyright 2013 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No
part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
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Photo Acknowledgments

The images in this book are used with the permission of:
Casadphoto/Dreamstime.com, p. 1; iStockphoto.com/
kali9, p. 3; National Cotton Council, pp. 5, 7, 9; Scott
Bauer/Agricultural Research Service/USDA, p. 11; Gary
Ombler/Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images, p. 13; Cheryl
Chan/Flickr/Getty Images, p. 15; Bloomberg/Getty
Images, p. 17; AFP/Stringer/Getty Images, p. 19; David
Touchtone/Dreamstime.com, p. 21; iStockphoto.com/
mandygodbehear, p. 23.

Front cover: Walter Arce/Dreamstime.com.

Main body text set in Arta Std Book 20/26.
Typeface provided by International Typeface Corp.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nelson, Robin, 1971

From cotton to T-shirt / by Robin Nelson.

p. cm. (Start to finish, second series.

Everyday products)
Audience: Grades K to 3.
Includes index.
ISBN 9780761365617 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
1. T-shirtsJuvenile literature. 2. Cotton

manufactureJuvenile literature. I. Title.
TT675.N45 2013
646.435dc23 2012007914

Manufactured in the United States of America
1 MG 12/31/12

TABLE OF

Contents

My T-shirt keeps me cool.

How was it made?

A farmer grows cotton.

T-shirts are made of cotton. Cotton comes from a plant. Cotton plants grow flowers. These flowers turn into cotton bolls. Each boll holds many seeds and bits of cotton.

Machines pick the cotton.

Cotton is ready to be picked in the fall. The cotton is white and fluffy. Large picking machines pick the cotton from the plants.

The cotton is cleaned.

The cotton is sent through a cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that pulls the seeds out of the cotton. The cotton gin also cleans and dries the cotton. The clean cotton is sent to a cotton mill to be made into cloth.

A machine spins the cotton.

A machine combs the cotton until it is long and thin. Then another machine spins the cotton into thin ropes called thread.

The thread is made into cloth.

Many spools of thread are put on a knitting machine. Long needles make loops and knots with the thread. The thread is knitted into cloth.

The cloth is dyed.

Cotton cloth can be dyed any color of the rainbow. Workers dip the cloth in liquid to change its color. Then the cloth is loaded onto a truck and sent to a place where T-shirts are made.

The cloth is cut.

A machine cuts the cloth into pieces. Each piece will become part of a
T-shirt. The pieces are cut in many sizes for different sizes of people.

A worker sews the cloth.

A worker uses a sewing machine to sew the pieces together.
They become a T-shirt.

The T-shirts are sent to stores.

The T-shirts are loaded onto trucks. The trucks take the T-shirts to stores to be sold.

I wear my T-shirt.

My soft T-shirt started as part of a plant. It has gone from cotton to T-shirt!

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