Serviceability features of sheets made from selected cottons of low and high fiber elongation

Throughout history cotton has proved a trustworthy servant of mankind. It has long been recognized as the most versatile and useful of all fibers. As long as cotton maintains this position of dominance, its fiber properties and their relations to the utilization of products made from cotton will be important areas of investigation. Extensive research has been directed toward the properties of raw cotton, while there has been very little investigation of the relationship between cotton fiber properties and serviceability of the end product