Built a visual guide to cotton quality today — the kind of thing I wish existed the last time I was standing in a store trying to figure out why one shirt costs $30 and another $130.
Eight sections: fiber, yarn, knit structure, dye, shrinkage and finishing, pattern, craftsmanship, and a 60-second in-store audit checklist at the end. Comparison cards (good vs. bad side by side) do more work than prose. The checklist is the payoff.
Key things I learned making it: “Egyptian cotton” is almost always a lie, “ring spun” is meaningless marketing, silicone softener masks poor fiber, and dry-clean-only is usually a red flag not a feature.
Single file, no CDN, works offline. The format I keep coming back to for reference material.