Pants give us many of the products used to make clothing. Your favourite old sweatshirt may be made from soft cotton. The strong, waterproof soles of your shoes are probably made of rubber.
Cotton comes from the seed pods of a plant. When the pods are ripe, they look like fluffy balls. The fluff can be twisted into thread and then woven into cloth.
Flax and hemp plants have stringy fibres in their stalks. The stalks are dried and scraped, then combed into long strips that can be spun into thread. Flax fibres are woven into a fine cloth called linen. Hemp makes coarser material that is used to make carpets and rope.
Rubber trees are often grown in large forests called plantations. To get the rubber out of a tree, workers make slanting cuts in the bark. Juice called latex oozes out of the cuts and drips into a container underneath. The latex is taken to a factory and made into rubber.
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