The cashmere wool comes from the cashmere goat, which is mainly native to China and Mongolia.
In some cases we can find cashmere goats in Russia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and more recently in Australia and New Zealand.
China and Mongolia, with their plateaus, mountains and hill country, are the best place for keeping this goat breed. The cashmere won there is considered the best in the world.
The valuable Unterhaare are combed out once a year by hand and you receive per animal about 100gr to 150gr of wool. For a sweater you need the wool of about 3 cashmere goats.
Use a special comb with hooked teeth to comb out to ensure that the cashmere hair is not damaged.
In cashmere production, there is still the possibility of shearing and shaving. Although faster and more yielding, these two methods have the disadvantage that the fibers are shorter, less elastic and do not achieve the splendid shine of combing.
The cashmere wool is usually sorted into 3 color shades:
White to nature
Light gray and gray
brown
The white cashmere is characterized by its softness and elasticity. It is the most expensive yarn of these 3 color classifications.
The quality determination of the cashmere yarn is the end of a long and costly production process. The starting point of the final price of every cashmere pullover is the use of the raw material. Here are the biggest differences.
The limited availability and the elaborate extraction explain the high final price.
Cashmere is characterized by its high softness, its silky shine and the unsurpassed suppleness of the yarn.
We produce our base models in a 26S / 2 yarn. It is a 2-ply yarn and is processed in the strengths from 3.5 Gage to 16 Gage.