Cotton is used to make a number of textile products. These include Terrycloth, used to make highly absorbent bath Towels and Robes; Denim, used to make Blue jeans; Cambric, popularly used in the manufacture of blue work shirts (from which we get the term " Blue-collar"); and Corduroy, Seersucker, and cotton Twill. Socks, Underwear, and most T-shirt are made from cotton. Bed sheets often are made from cotton. Cotton also is used to make yarn used in Crochet and Knitting. Fabric also can be made from recycled or recovered cotton that otherwise would be thrown away during the spinning, weaving, or cutting process. While many fabrics are made completely of cotton, some materials blend cotton with other fibers, including Rayon and Synthetic fiber such as Polyester. It can either be used in knitted or woven fabrics, as it can be blended with easting to make a stretcher thread for knitted fabrics, and things such as stretch jeans.

In addition to the Textile industry, cotton is used in Fishnet, Coffee filter, Tent, Gunpowder (see Nitrocellulose), Cotton paper, and in Bookbinding. The first Chinese Papermaking was made of cotton fiber. Fire hose were once made of cotton.The cottonseed which remains after the cotton is ginned is used to produce Cottonseed oil, which, after refining, can be consumed by humans like any other Vegetable oil. The Cottonseed meal that is left generally is fed to livestock. During slavery, cotton root bark was used as an Abortifacient, that is, a Folk remedy to provoke abortion.

Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning. These curly fibers typically are less than 1/8 in (3 mm) long. The term also may apply to the longer textile fiber staple lint as well as the shorter fuzzy fibers from some upland species. Linters are traditionally used in the manufacture of paper and as a raw material in the manufacture of Cellulose.