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Foxfibre is a trademarked brand of color growing cotton, often organic in according to the manufacturer.
Sally Fox is the founder of the brand Foxfibre. Sally Fox worked as an insect researcher on a cotton field in California in the early 1980's. One day she saw a bush with brown cotton. She saw great potential in that the cotton was already colored from when it was growing. It could lead to huge savings in processes where traditional cotton is dyed and bleached with the help of many hazardous chemicals. The fibers from the brown cotton were short from the beginning which led to problems in mechanical handling. Sally began research and tried to cultivate cotton with longer fibers, without that the natural brown color should fade and become pale. She found that the brown color hid other colors like red, green and pink. After many years of research, she has now come up with cotton in shades of brown, green and red. The colors become stronger and deeper with each wash. The length of the fibers are now long enough so that they are well adapted for machine manufacture in large scales. The cotton is organically grown. A major advantage from an environmental perspective is that the cotton does not need to be dyed or bleached. Sally Fox markets their cotton varieties under the name Foxfibre.
Resources
- Society for Nature Conservation
- Foxfibre
- Sally Fox and natural cotton
- Bergman, Stephan (1995), The white treasure, Verner Frang AB, (ISBN 91-630-3302-X)
- Lanne, Lotta (1993), Ekomodet, Infomatica, (ISBN 91-972208-1-7)