Is this the end for mass, cheap cashmere?
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telegraph.co.ukcashmere like they used to… you’re not wrong. What used to be a durable heirloom (“proper cashmere shouldn’t be fluffy and soft when you first buy it,” one specialist told me) often now looks like a Disney cloud, and passes across the horizon just as quickly.Cheap cashmere has come at huge cost.
Combed, fluffed (and weakened) in order to have instant shelf-appeal, much cashmere dissolves into holes faster than your prized sourdough.Goat hair (native to Mongolia and China) used to be harvested once a year.
Combing the goat’s bellies and collecting the loose, super fine, super strong hair was done by hand during the moulting period, when the hair was loose and best-practice process was painless.
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