Cashmere is surely the noblest
of all premium wools and over the 
centuries has always been a
precious and sought-after fibre.
The goat "Hircus Engagrus"
mainly lives in the Tibetan
Plateau,in the plateaux of North,
China,Mongolia but also those of
Afghanistan and Iran.

This goat has very long, straight
and coarse hair but is
characterized by a unique and
precious undercoat.
The undercoat is characterized by

an extremely soft hair which is developped over the winter
months in order to protect the animal from the cold and hard
climate of the Plateaux.Once the undercoat has been
worked we get the cashmere we all know.
we know.

The climate plays a very important 
role in the quality of the fibre, as
a matter of facts goats, that live in
places where the weather is very
cold, have a finer and more
precious undercoat.

The best time of the year for collecting the undercoat is May
when the shepherds remove the hair with a metal toothed
coarse comb in order to obtain the raw material.The raw
material is then washed in water with natural soap, it is
dried and then it has to rest for a while.
Cashmere is very delicate fibre therefore requires only
natural products during the processing.
In order not to alter its quality, resting times between
one process and the other are also necessary.

At this stage the material is
de-haired.This last step removes
the coarse outer guard hair that
might have been combed togheter 
with the undercoat.At the end of
this process,the flock is ready to be
spun.