Part 1 of Essay
Established in 1929 as a working cotton gin, The Cotton Gin is a unique shopping adventure in an atmosphere of bygone days. From the attic to cellar and ginning building to seed room, The Cotton Gin is chock-full of textiles loomed in North Carolina, nostalgia from Currituck's waterfowl heritage, and country crafts and acc ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... until Sally Fox found a forgotten bag of brown cotton seeds in 1982. Pursuing her lifetime dream and her love for the environment, Sally Fox began to investigate the possibilities of creating commercially viable long-fibered colored cotton. Realizing the potential importance of colored cotton as an alternative to using solvent-based dyes, she was determined to succeed in producing a marketable fashion raw material. The final result was Fox Fiber®, a strong long-fibered colored cotton, which can be readily wov ....