Blip cotton Clothing Industry fiber fibers Clothes Apparel Kat Hannaford 6/02/11 2:40pm 6/02/11 2:40pm g 10,322L 18Edit One of America's Oldest Industries, Cotton, Is Surprisingly High-Tech Kat Hannaford PFollowOUnfollow 6/02/11 2:40pm 6/02/11 2:40pm g 10,322L 18EditInstead of bending down, turning around and picking a bale of cotton, America's big industry is more high-tech than you thought. Wired looks at how the fibers are grown, picked, processed and spun into threads...for your threads. [Wired and Flickr] 1 jFacebook iTwitter kTumblrLDiscuss