mortaine wrote:When cotton is harvested IRL, it has a husky shell covering the white cotton fibre. Removing this husk is time consuming, but can be done by hand. However, the cotton gin is a remarkably simple invention that allows the husk to be removed quickly and without the tough labor that is required in hand-husking (you basically have to pry the husk open with your fingers, which hurts!)
So, some characters in cantr have time and cotton on hand. Can we have a project to hand husk the cotton? It's time consuming, but doesn't require iron, and making iron can be time consuming and dangerous, depending on who controls the resources.
