From Cotton to T-shirt
By: Drew
Introduction
T shirts come in MANY sizes and shapes some come in patterns like zigzags and stripes!
Farm
Most T shirts are made from a cloth called cotton. Cotton cloth comes from the cotton plant. Cotton grows in more than 100 countries around the world. Cotton plants grow in sunny places where there is a lot of rain in the growing season most of the worlds cotton grows in china india and the U.S.A .the next step of the process takes place in the factory.
Factory
Farmers send the modules of the seed cotton to a factory the factory is called GIN gin comes from the world engine at the factory machines break open the modules.Cotton fibers spill out.The cotton seeds are still attached to the fibers. Machines separate the fibers from the seeds. The loose fibers are called cotton lint they are pressed into big heavy bales. The next step in the process takes place at the store.
Store
It might take a few weeks for the cargo ship to sail to your country. When it does it unloades the container of T-shirts then the T-shirts are sent to stores. People pay the stores for the T-shirts. In turn the stores pay the factory that made the T-shirts. The factory pays