Tag Archives : cotton

So far in our effort to compile the best of the holiday gifts for the 2010 season, we have been focusing on the macho side of the holiday season. Hence, this time around, we decided to take a different approach to the shopping fiesta and pick some of the coolest holiday gifts for the geekiest of women. Geeks aren’t only confined to the realm of males, [...]

Can you spray a shirt on, instead of wearing one? The concept is interesting and a team of scientists have taken it up as a project but the results after ten years of results aren’t very reassuring. You might be tempted to try it for a day if you are the adventurous type. But making it a commercially viable product seems to be some distance away though [...]

Towels with monograms are the best way to avoid any confusion about which towel belongs to whom. Some people can be very fussy and possessive about their towel. The situation can get nasty if some one uses their towel by mistake. At times it develops into towel fights. It is not the sort of fight where you wet one end of the towel and snap it, but [...]

Cotton has been used for fiber over the past 7,000 years. Presently, it accounts for nearly 40 percent of all clothing fiber used worldwide. The cotton industry is a vast enterprise network across the globe. Farm production of it alone involves more than 20 million farmers in some 80 countries. If the plant has been useful to protect bodies of people, [...]

Brazil is getting ready to break the patents of North American pharmaceutical products if the World Organization of the Trade decides today that the country can make it, in retaliation to the subsidies granted to the North American cotton farmers, it informed the Brazilian press. Brazil challenged the subsidies of the USA to the cotton in 2002 and, [...]

It is getting a wee bit chilly to lay in a field of flowers. Save the travel effort and bring the bloom to your bedroom with the Bloom Organic Cotton Duvet from Wildflower Organics. The duvet is made with 100 per cent certified organically grown and processed cotton. It comes with matching shams and linen throw pillows that are individually printed [...]