You try straining it through cheesecloth, but it doesn t do much good.

From rough cotton to the finest cambric

The first fossil, a vertebra dated to the Paleocene, was not discovered until 1972.

This is some pollen embedded in a cotton shirt, similar to the one that I'm wearing now.

Now, if I compare that to a cotton towel that I can use a thousand times,

These are actually wires wrapped in muslin and steeped in vegetable dye.

Now, if I compare that to a cotton towel that I can use a thousand times, I don't have a whole lot of embodied energy until I wash that yogurty towel.