Basic Definition

Cone Denim (or Cone Mills) is an American denim mill, providing high quality denim to jean brands both domestically and internationally. Cone is one of the oldest denim mills in the world, with a history dating back to 1891. Cone has vertically integrated manufacturing plants in the US, Mexico, Nicaragua, and China) with state-of-the-art ring-spinning, dyeing, weaving, and finishing capabilities.

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History

Developed in 1891, the cone mills originated in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founders Moses Cone and Ceasar Cone formed Cone Export and Commission Company to represent textile mills in the South. Moses Cone built his first denim manufacturing plant in Greensboro in 1895. It was called the Proximity Cotton Mills because of its location to the nearby cotton fields. Almost ten years later, under Proximity Manufacturing Company the Cone brothers built White Oak Cotton Mills in Greensboro.White Oak was named after a 200-year-old giant oak tree on the grounds of the mill.  By 1910, the company was known as the world’s largest producer of denim. By 1915, Cone signed an exclusive agreement to provide the denim for the Levi’s classic 501XX blue jeans, a relationship that would last almost ninety years. By 1930, Cone’s White Oak facility could claim to be the world’s largest manufacturer of denim, with 46,000 looms in operation. Since 2004, the International Textile Group operates Cone Denim in the United States, Mexico, Turkey, India and Guatemala. Here at indiDenim, our American denim is a 10 oz. light-weight stretch fabric made from Cone Denim.
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See Also

Japanese Denim
Spanish Denim
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References

International Textile Group Completes Integration of Burlington and Cone ; http://www.voyle.net/Nano Textiles/Textiles-2004-001.htm
Cone Mills Corporation-Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_Mills_Corporation#cite_note-18
Cone Denim; http://www.conedenim.com/whoweare.html
Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan
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