“It’s done within a few minutes,” Burger says. “And they run off quite happy.” It’s not unheard of to shear a cashmere goat, but the quality of the resulting fiber is rather mixed. And it’s more stressful for the goat (just imagine trying to shave your cat versus just give...
Cashmere is a type of wool that is made from the hair of a certain type of goat native to the Gobi Desert and Central Asia. Long considered to be one of the softest and most luxurious types of wool in existence, cashmere is highly prized as a material for sweaters, scarves, and other...
sorts, maybe your alpaca or vicuna, both from the alpaca; and those vintage blazers and coats that you always see in that rich caramel or butterscotch and are heavy maybe made from a blend of camel hair from camels and the most expensive of wool fibers, cashmere from the mountain goat. ...