Kapok Dao, One Of The Best Cotton In China, Is Produced In Xinjiang.

Everyone is a book, with thousands of experience to connect the story of life. Each piece of clothing is not only used to cover or keep out the cold, but also the companion closest to our skin. It carries the memory of history, the essence of culture and the persistence of ingenuity We buy a dress just because we like it for a moment, but it takes ten or even decades to make a good one.

Kapok Tao always believes that clothes should have their own stories. A garment with a story can understand people's heart and make the wearer meet more beauty. For more than 20 years, we are not only making clothes, but also writing a volume of stories.

This year, we invite you to write and witness with us.

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Xinjiang cotton, do not eat this set

Today, the boycott of Xinjiang cotton by some foreign enterprises is hotly discussed. I am very puzzled: what is the problem with cotton in Xinjiang that should be resisted?

In my memory, the warmest cotton in China was produced in Xinjiang. In the 1960s and 1970s, when I was young, I went to the countryside with my parents and came to Xinjiang. For the first time, I saw a continuous cotton field.

It was cotton harvest time. In the golden sun, the plants more than one meter high, white cotton ball like a full of white clouds, flying in the wind. Beside the girls, there are bags for picking cotton. They are picking cotton in the cotton field with a smile. From a distance, it looks like a picture

Since then, the cotton field has become a hard work area for parents, and a playground for our children to grow up. More than half a century has passed, and the hard years at that time have gone with the wind, but I still remember that piece of cotton field, often think of those warm times.

Although cotton is not as noble as silk, nor as gorgeous as leather, but it is full of soil nourishing simplicity: natural and healthy, no stimulation, no smell, no bleaching and dyeing. In this way, only cotton padded clothes were used to keep warm in ancient times. The warmth retention of cotton clothing depends on the quality of cotton. If an orange is born in Huainan, it is orange; if it is born in Huaibei, it is orange. Growth environment is the decisive factor of cotton quality.

Xinjiang's soil is alkaline and deep, and there is a unique temperature difference between day and night and solar radiation: the temperature difference between day and night is nearly 20 degrees in summer. The average annual sunshine time is 3000 hours. The unique natural conditions ensure the good quality of cotton in Xinjiang.

Therefore, when we were planning to make cotton padded clothes five years ago, I first thought of Xinjiang cotton. So, I set foot on that piece of land again, walk on the soft soil ground, take a bunch of cotton into the hand, white as snow, warm and soft. The heart can not help feeling: parents splash sweat and leave the place of youth, now has grown high-quality cotton.

That year, we opened a farm in Xinjiang to plant cotton.

Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty said: "those who treat jade should not only carve them but also polish them; when they are refined, they should seek their essence.". "It's the way to carve jade, study and plant cotton.

We use 360 days to improve the soil, the pollution-free biomass organic polymer materials, penetrate into the deep soil to increase nutrients and improve fertility. It also uses 360 days to cultivate high-quality cotton, without pesticides and chemical fertilizers, completely manual weeding and insect control, to ensure the whole process of green and healthy planting; strict control of plant spacing and water, to avoid cotton seedling development and excessive transformation of auxin. The middle and late September is the best time to pick Xinjiang cotton. At this time, we should harvest carefully as soon as possible, and use the best cotton to provide raw materials for our cotton padded clothes.

Growth process of cotton in Xinjiang cotton field

The trend is constantly bringing forth new ideas, while the original clothes with temperature and feelings need to wait for the flowers to bloom and fall. The raw materials grown under the moistening of time, together with the classic handicrafts inherited for thousands of years, can withstand the test of aesthetics and contain the most intimate Chinese culture.

The cotton maker carefully makes the inner core for kapok cotton clothing

Xinjiang cotton, in many cold and hard days, has warmed the body and mind of generations. We also believe that the warmth will be passed on and on forever, even if there is any resistance.

In the face of some of the current resistance, our official response is simple and overbearing: "Xinjiang cotton, do not eat this set"!

Hand sewing kapok track cotton padded clothes