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You can find even more funny shirts by clicking here. Since all of our funny shirts are made of cotton I though you might like to know the history of cotton. No one knows exactly how old cotton is, but rest assured our funny shirts are made from recently picked cotton. Scientists searching caves in Mexico found bits of cotton bolls and pieces of cotton cloth that proved to be at least 7,000 years old. They also found that the cotton itself was much like that grown in America today. In the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, cotton was being grown, spun and woven into cloth to use for clothing, probably not for funny shirts, 3,000 years BC. At about the same time, natives of Egypt�s Nile valley were making and wearing cotton clothing except for funny shirts. Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe about 800 A.D. When Columbus discovered America in 1492, the real beginning of funny shirts cotton, he found cotton growing in the Bahama Islands. By 1500, cotton was known generally throughout the world. Cotton seed are believed to have been planted in Florida in 1556 and in Virginia in 1607. By 1616, colonists were growing cotton along the James River in Virginia useful for clothing, linen and maybe even the funny ones. Cotton was first spun by machinery in England in 1730. We do send some funny shirts to the UK. The industrial revolution in England and the invention of the cotton gin in the U.S. paved the way for the important place cotton holds in the world today. Eli Whitney, a native of Massachusetts, secured a patent not on funny shirts but on the cotton gin in 1793, though patent office records indicate that the first cotton gin may have been built by a machinist named Noah Homes two years before Whitney�s patent was filed. The gin, short for engine, could do the work 10 times faster than by hand which made it much easier to make funny shirts. The gin made it possible to supply large quantities of cotton fiber to the fast-growing textile industry. Within 10 years, the value of the U.S. cotton crop rose from $150,000 to more than $8 million.
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