Breathable, durable, versatile, crisp, hardwearing. These are just some of the ways you could describe cotton fabrics. Cotton is an extremely versatile fibre, especially when blended with other fibres to create a myriad of beautiful fabrics for many different sewing applications. Cotton is pervasive in the textile world but its production has a sordid history and it’s no secret that cotton requires a lot of water for both its crop and the many manufacturing processes required to get the fibres from boll to finished textile.