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U.S. banknotes are made mostly from cotton and linen

Durable cotton-and-linen security paper with embedded colored fibers beside cotton and flax; no currency design is shown.
Cotton bolls and flax fibers shown as distinct raw materials for durable paper.
A worker examines durable security paper leaving a press; the sheet is blank and not a banknote.

Durable cotton-and-linen security paper with embedded colored fibers beside cotton and flax; no currency design is shown.

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U.S. Federal Reserve notes are not made from ordinary wood-pulp paper. According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, their material is about 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen, with red and blue synthetic fibres also embedded in it.