Florida is a perfect example of a peninsula: a piece of land surrounded on three sides by water but connected to a larger landmass. Florida is connected to the states of Georgia and Alabama and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
The cleaned and fluffed cotton is put through a carding machine, which further cleans the material and forms the short fibers into a long untwisted rope that is then ready for spinning and weaving.