https://ctt-ojs-ttu.tdl.org/ctt <p><em><strong>Cotton and Textile Topics:</strong></em> Sharing current research infomation and trends in cotton fiber and textile industries.</p><p><strong>History: <em>Textile Topics</em></strong> has been published for many years by Texas Tech University. It was initiated to reports news related to natural fibers such as cotton, wool, and mohair. Then progresses to focus only on cotton fibers. It reported news related to cotton fibers testing, textile processing, students, and research topics of interest. Since about 2000, Textile Topics included one research paper in every issue.</p><p>The name is now changed to <em><strong>Cotton and Textile Topics</strong></em> to cover news and research on cotton (production, harvesting, ginning, testing, processing, dyeing, and finishing).</p><p>The back issues from 1982 to 2008 can be found in Archives.</p> Texas Tech University en-US Cotton and Textile Topics 2576-327X https://ctt-ojs-ttu.tdl.org/ctt/article/view/1 The shrinking U.S. textile manufacturing industry has created an increased reliance on the international market for selling U.S. cotton. In turn, this process is transforming the requirements on fiber properties. Eric Hequet Copyright (c) 2017 Cotton and Textile Topics 2018-12-05 2018-12-05