Made Of

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shirt

ProductObject

A cotton T-shirt takes about 2,700 litres of water to make, mostly to grow the cotton.

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Nothing on this map is built from it yet.

A cotton T-shirt takes about 2,700 litres of water to make, mostly to grow the cotton.

From the big bang to shirt

The most direct chain from the start of the universe, following what things are made from and, for living things, what they evolved from. Each step shows when it first appeared.

big bang13.8 bn yrs ago
Hhydrogen13.8 bn yrs ago
water4.4 bn yrs ago
indigo plantdate unknown
dyedate unknown
shirtdate unknown