Pure cashmere
Weight decides everything
Duvet, no jar
The goat has two coats: on the outside the guard hair, long and coarse; underneath the duvet, a very fine down. Only the duvet becomes cashmere, and separating it well is what distinguishes a garment that caresses from one that pricks.
A goat, a comb, two hundred grams
Cashmere goats live on the high plateaus of Central Asia, where the temperature drops well below freezing in winter. To survive, they develop a layer of very fine down beneath their outer coat. That, and that alone, is cashmere.
It is harvested in the spring, during the molting season, by combing the animal by hand. An adult goat yields on average between one hundred and two hundred grams of fine fiber, which must then be cleared of coarse hairs before it can be spun. This accounts for the limited quantity of this material, and its price.
THE YARN
Combed wool and silk
The thinnest in the family. Clean surface, sharp drape: the most formal register
Extrafine merino and silk
Elasticity and fluidity combined. Mid-seasons, changing days, air-conditioned offices
Merino, cashmere and silk
Three fibers: structure from merino, touch from cashmere, drape from silk. The most substantial of the three
Wash it more often.
It's like hair: regular washing regenerates the hand feel instead of ruining it. Precise instructions are on each garment's label.
