Years ago – maybe circa 1995 – I read a newspaper article (Austin American Statesman) about cotton. Some entrepreneurs had looked for and propagated strains of cotton that were not white. They planned to grow crops of the different colors they’d isolated. The colors in the article photos were not bright, primary colors but rather earthy shades of brown, green, and yellow - maybe there was a dusty shade of blue in there. The inventors planned to make colorful, natural fabrics without using dyes.

For years I've looked for those cotton fabrics without success. I thought the project was a great idea.