Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy fibre that forms around the cotton plant’s seeds. The fibre can be spun into yarn and woven into textiles. Around 1790 the textiles industry in England demanded cotton fibre to be imported from the Americas in large quantities. Enslaved people on plantations suffered as a consequence.
This cotton pod is from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to John Reader Jackson of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
This cotton pod is from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to John Reader Jackson of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 73/1921/9/PRIORIS
- Collection Class
- Plants
- Collection Area Region
- Mexico
- Collector Excavator
- Jackson, Mr John Reader (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- cotton
- Simple Name
- pods
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
