The company will be using recycled cotton from blue jeans in the interior of the 2012 Ford Focus.

FORBES: Ford Focus Uses Recycled Jeans

The extraordinary lobby of the palace is centered on a marble fountain supported by cherubs, while the sky-blue walls are frescoed with cotton-ball clouds, birds, garlands and idealized rural scenes.

FORBES: Taj Falaknuma Palace: A New Experience of Palatial Splendor

If there had been just one puffy trawler, a little tugboat of a cloud, even so much as a cotton ball of vapor against the blue, he would have hoped.

NEWYORKER: Youth in Revolt

On day two of the Forbes MEET conference, I pulled on a pair of white-yellow cotton pants to go with my white shirt and blue blazer.

FORBES: My Ethical Dilemma

Best buys are babouches (traditional leather slippers), silver Berber jewellery, the famous blue-glazed Fassi ceramics, hand-sewn linen and cotton embroidery, Berber hendiras (traditional woven cloaks that make great wall hangings), argan oil (for cooking or in soap), saffron and other spices, brassware, and carpets of every type, style and quality.

BBC: Get lost in a Moroccan souq

The curtainless windows were rectangles of electric-blue sky that turned to gray and then normal daylight as the patients rose and slowly, in their thin striped cotton robes, began wandering down the corridor that led into the common room.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden