What are T-shirts made of?
T-shirts take cotton yarn, water, sewing thread and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 30 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
How T-shirts are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Raw cotton through cotton yarn
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
- Limestone through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
Made along the way: 27 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 20
Carbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthylenePara-xyleneEthylene glycolHydrogenBenzenePropyleneMethanolNaphthaCarbon dioxideToluene