A whole paddock of nurtured Pidgeon Pea next to the cotton fields encourages moths and bugs to feast and breed away from the cotton.
Cotton Fibre forming in the boll over Summer.
Each Module of seed cotton is coded and GPS located as it’s made. This record stays with the fibre to baling. 
Each module contains enough cotton for over 3000 t-shirts.
This is where the cotton tumbles into the teeth on wheels that pull the seeds away and leave the fibre ready for spinning.
Ginning removes the seed from the fibre, this is saved for cattle feed or to be pressed for oil, even the gin trash has pathways to composting or energy and the motes (short fibres) can go to coarse grade stringy yarns. This is the Gin in St. George, S.W. QLD.
Each Spinning batch is a combination of bales steadily processed and blended for consistent even yarn.
For Smooth strong yarn fibres are combed into alignment with any short fibres removed.
Roving is finely drafted before ring spinning finally adds twist to the organised fibres – yarn is created.
Yarn is palletised ready for shipping back to Australia from Manchester, UK.
Yarn is loaded onto a creel and knitted into a great long ‘sock’ as jersey.
Factory in Coburg, Melbourne, Australia.
Jersey Fabric is piece dyed, in a jet dye machine, opened to full width, and dried on a stenter, then rolled up ready for use.
Factory in Sunshine, Melbourne, Australia.
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