Cotton

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Identifier: cotton00nati (find matches)
Title: Cotton
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: National association of cotton manufacturers
Subjects: Cotton manufacture
Publisher: (s.l. : National Association of Cotton Manufacturers)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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r beauty. The first invasion of Egypt was in 639 A. D., seventeen yearsafter Mohammeds flight. In 703, Amur-Ibu-Al-Asi invaded theAfrican Mediterranean shores, where Phoenician, Greek and Romanhad left more than a trace of their civilization and more than aremnant of their arts. Mohammed Kasim led his victorious horse-men into India in 711 A. D., and Spain was invaded in 712. Afterthe soldiers came the able administrator, after the fanatic the culture-loving merchant prince and his craftsmen. COTTON IN SPAIN In the reign of Abdrahman III, justly styled The Great, who ruledin Cordova from 912 to 961 A. D., there was a great infusion of thearts of the East. Cotton, the sugar cane, rice and silk were natural-ized. Even today, on the fertile plains of Valencia, the cotton plantgrows wild. Cordova, Granada and Seville competed on even termswith Damascus and Bagdad for supremacy in the arts. There are records, of a somewhat dubious character, that the (15) A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF A GREAT FIBRE
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Indian painted cotton, ISth century.(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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