Processing cotton in a village, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia

A man cleaning wool for dyeing in the small village of Angkor Ban, Battambang Province, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Woman spinning, making reel of cotton thread, village around Nong Khiaw, District of Luang Prabang, Northern Laos

Men washing the starch or dye out of cotton cloth in running water, before drying ready for indigo dyeing, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Hand block printing, second process, visually registered, using natural dyes on cotton, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Men washing the starch out of cotton cloth in running water, before drying ready for indigo dyeing, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Muslim dye master immersing block printed cotton fabric in hot indigo solution for dyeing, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Man washing ink off screen used for printing sari lengths of cotton, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Men screenprinting sari lengths of cotton, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Screenprinting factory, men printing sari lengths of cotton by hand, Bhuj district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Female factory worker managing machinery in cotton processing factory, Rajkot district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Cotton fibre, hand picked from local cotton fields, being transferred in bulk by digger into the factory for processing, Gujarat, India, Asia

Large bales of processed cotton bound in cotton cloth ready for transport from factory, Rajkot district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Female factory workers managing machinery in cotton processing factory, Rajkot district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Men unloading newly picked cotton from trucks into huge heaps ready for factory processing, Rajkot district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Interior of modernised cotton factory and workers, established over 100 years ago, Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, India, Asia

Mill workers on pile of raw cotton balls on Deccan plateau, near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Mill workers on pile of raw cotton balls on Deccan plateau, near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Toy and Joy contemporary Jaipur hand block printing works, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Toy and Joy contemporary Jaipur hand block printing works, Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

Toy and Joy contemporary Jaipur hand block printing works, Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

Modernised cotton mill in Ahmedabad, the Manchester of the East, Gujarat, India, Asia

Cotton mills in Ahmedabad, the Manchester of the East, Gujarat, India, Asia

A fracking site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA, next to a farmers Cotton crop. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

Centenary Mill, an old Lancashire cotton mill in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Turkmenistan

Visitors in the Art District cotton-spinning mill, from cotton to culture, design festival Designers Open, from 28 till 30 November 2012, Bohemian side of town, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Visitors in the Art District cotton-spinning mill, from cotton to culture, design festival Designers Open, from 28 till 30 November 2012, Bohemian side of town, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Weaving mill

Yarn bobbins, Saint Jean tapestery factory, Aubusson tapestry work is listed as immaterial UNESCO World Heritage, Manufacture Saint-Jean, Creuse, Limousin, France, Europe

Spools of thread in a textile factory

A storage yard