Get Your Plants On!
 Years ago, some people wore leaves and plants as clothes. Although fashions have changed, we can still thank plants for clothing. If you are wearing cotton clothes right now, you are wearing a plant. Cotton is picked from cotton plants, treated and used to make clothes, towels, sheets and other fabrics.
Cotton isn't the only plant we can wear. Linen is a fabric made from flax plants. It was first grown in Egypt and used to wrap mummies! A new fabric called Tencel is made from wood. Luckily, you won't find any splinters in it! It is spun from the natural cellulose in woodpulp. It is made into yarns and fabrics, then sewn into comfortable clothing.
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