An Alternative Interpretation Of Colored Cotton

        First, color variation is a natural phenomenon, but it should be eliminated.

Cotton fibers naturally grow with white color. Actually, it is a variation, a gene mutation, and a natural phenomenon. In the past, such cotton appeared occasionally in the course of planting, and the farmers would eradicate them and prevent them from spreading. In ancient times, Colored cotton It was planted and used until the late nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century. It was still widely used in the folk, and even in some stages it was regarded as a good quality by the nobility. However, with the development of dyeing technology, people prefer to use white cotton cloth to dye them. After dyeing, the colors of clothing are more diverse. By the early 1980s, Dr. Sari Fox, a doctor of biology in the United States, began to scale up the cultivation of colored cotton in the Middle East of the United States, and sold colored cotton products to consumers in the United States. In the last few years in 80s, a small number of colored cotton fever appeared in the US market, but by the beginning of 90s, this little craze was cooled. It is said that in the middle of 90s, Dr. Sari Fox, who was praised by the industry as the originator of color cotton in the contemporary world, bid farewell to the cultivation and planting of colored cotton, and opened a flower shop in North Carolina to earn a living by selling flowers.

As a natural phenomenon, there are many unstable factors in the change of cotton color. First of all, the color is not stable. At present, the colors that can be seen on the market are only brown and green, and the depth of the colors is very random. The color difference between the cotton seeds from the same batch of seeds in the same field is obvious, and there will be more differences in the color matching. Secondly, the quality of color cotton is unstable, the strength is low, the rate of short wool is high, the fineness of the fiber is fine, it is not suitable for spinning high count yarn. The yarn is usually pure color cotton (more than 90%), and the highest number of yarn can be reached to 40. Moreover, colored cotton. Color fastness Poor, especially the fastness of sunlight, has occurred in the fishermen wearing colored cotton T-shirt after fishing, found a significant difference in color and complaints to producers, and color cotton washing and washing methods are also very high requirements, according to the people's view is difficult to wait. These weaknesses tell people from another aspect that the natural color of cotton should be white. The so-called brown and green cotton is actually a gene mutation and a throwback phenomenon. In the evolution process of nature, it is a natural phenomenon, and also a phenomenon that does not adapt to the natural existence. It is a phenomenon that should be involved in natural selection and will naturally be eliminated. Any human intervention is against the natural law.

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　　 Two, most of the products on the market are colored cotton and white cotton blended products.

In the early days when colored cotton products entered the market, the price of colored cotton was more than twice that of ordinary white cotton. In order to reduce costs and overcome the weakness of low strength of colored cotton itself, textile manufacturers mostly used colored cotton and white cotton blended to produce colored cotton yarn, and at the same time achieved the purpose of changing the color of the same color system. Moreover, for the sake of cost consideration, most of them adopted the method of mixing low proportion colored cotton with high proportion white cotton. In this way, brown or green cotton products are seen in the market. As long as they are mixed with colored cotton, they are all crowned with the title of colored cotton products, and they are openly labeled as green products. Under such a premise, the white cotton of conventional cotton has also been upgraded to a dominant color family in the colored cotton family, and has also enjoyed the treatment of green products, and is favored by consumers. But once it is understood, it is inevitable that there is suspicion of fish and birds. At least it is not straight. Therefore, the industry standard stipulates that products with more than 90% color cotton are allowed to be called pure colored cotton products. However, such products are seldom seen in the market. Most of the colored cotton products are blended products of colored cotton and white cotton, and in general, the proportion of colored cotton is not high.

　　 Three, the pollution brought by clothing is not just dyes, but the diversity of clothing depends on the regulation of colors.

The environmental protection concept that colored cotton brings to people is "non staining and pure nature", and then extended to "green environmental protection" products. This seems to mean that the pollution brought by clothing comes from dyes. But objectively speaking, the pollution of dyes is only a part or a small part. In the process of fabric dyeing, it is not only a part of dyeing, but at least through pretreatment, dyeing, post processing three stages can form a complete process, and in each of these three stages or in the process, there are a large number of chemical additives added into it. After several or even dozens of processing, the fabric effect we can see can be formed. Only to reduce or cancel a link in the middle, reduce or not dye the dye, it can only be said that the pollutants in the fabric are reduced by some. And formaldehyde, which is like a tiger, is not added to the dyeing process. formaldehyde The damage to the human body is much larger than that of the ordinary dye, and what manufacturers of colored cotton clothing products dare to stand up and declare that the products they have made do not add any chemical products in all the technological processes, and if so, it is really the happiness of consumers.

However, the color of the colored cotton is single, which makes the color change of the colored cotton products monotonous. But the diversity of clothing depends mainly on the color change besides the change of style. Many factors such as age differences, gender differences, geographical differences, educational level and so on, all affect their color requirements for the same dress. In terms of color diversity, color cotton is unlikely to break through in the short term. Although there are reports that red and blue cotton have been produced, those products are mostly products in test tube, which can not go to scale industrialization production. The introduction and expression of color genes is still an uncontrolled process at present. It is the top problem in the world. Scientific problems can not be solved only by desire and enthusiasm.

　　 Four, color cotton for clothing has its limitations.

The first is color, the color of cotton is mainly brown, and a small amount of green or brown green. This product is difficult for young people to accept, but young people are a very important group of clothing consumption, and the development of color cotton products can only tend to middle-aged and elderly clothing and underwear. The consumption desire of this type of consumer group is relatively low, and the speed of the elimination of underwear is relatively slow, which in turn restricts the development of colored cotton products.

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Secondly, the garments made of colored cotton are declared as Green products In addition to no staining, chemical preparations should be added or not added in the finishing process. If this is done, the fabric will feel "primitive", rough, slippery and easy to crease, and it will not be easy to handle after washing. This will make consumers lose interest in such products very quickly. If we want to make any changes, we must use chemical agents, and adopt modern methods to eliminate fabric, softness, wrinkle resistance and so on. Is such a product really a green product? Consumers may not know that such chemical agents are much more harmful to human body and environment than dye. And if consumers want to know the truth here, will anyone believe in "green"?

Moreover, due to many factors such as fineness, strength, finishing process and other factors, it is difficult to produce high-grade clothing with high color cotton content.

　　 Five, bad businessmen dye cotton and pretend to be colored cotton.

In the late 80s of last century, a new type of yarn with a colored yarn was first developed, which was first dyed with fibers and then mixed with natural fibers. Among them, the most commonly used is cotton dyeing, mainly dyed black, red, green three kinds, and then mixed with white cotton or more than two kinds of dyed cotton and white cotton mixed, produce colored cotton yarn, that is, the market collectively known as "flower grey yarn" or "linen grey yarn".

However, in some low-end markets, some undesirable traders used artificial dyed cotton instead of natural coloured cotton. Most of the dyestuffs used in this kind of artificially dyed cotton are low-grade dyestuffs and no post-processing. The clothing processed by it is very stimulating to human skin. As an ordinary consumer, it is difficult to distinguish between artificial dyeing cotton and natural colored cotton. Once there are problems, it is not only the consumers' bodies, but also the consumers. Natural colored cotton products Trust.

　　 Six, let the color cotton develop smoothly, we must treat the colored cotton rationally and objectively.

First, the production of colored cotton is a very complicated process, especially the breeding of cotton seeds, the development of new color lines and the cultivation of cotton. It is necessary to rely on the knowledge and technology of a large number of biological genetic disciplines.

Second: the production enterprises of colored cotton should establish industrial alliances, further improve the quality standards of color cotton products, regulate industrial behavior, eliminate alien species, and establish a good product image in the letter of consumers on the basis of existing product standards.

Third: strengthen the development of new products and innovation of suitable finishing technology for colored cotton products, so that color cotton products can withstand more stringent inspection and testing, and closer to the ideal state of pure natural, green and pollution-free.