Cashmere Fiber and Yarn

What is Cashmere?

Cashmere is the softest most prized fiber for sweaters and other garments. Cashmere is soft, light weight, durable, and very warm.
It has long been one of the most exotic and rarest fiber to be found. Cashmere is the term for the soft down undercoat of Cashmere
goats. The fleece of Cashmere goat is made up of two distinct fibers. The coarse outer hair and the fine cashmere undercoat. The
coarse outer hair is called guard hair. The fine undercoat (under 18.5 microns) is the source of Cashmere fiber for clothing.

The cashmere fiber is the goat's winter coat. Its growth is responsive to light.  Harvesting the cashmere takes place from January to
March, the time period when the goat naturally begins to shed its winter coat. Harvesting the cashmere fiber is by either shearing or
combing.

Our goats are combed (not sheared), the fiber is washed, we pick out any guard hairs or other debris (however not much since the goats are combed), and the fiber is provided in a "cloud". We have white, beige, grey, brown. Cashmere yarn will be available in 2010.

$17/oz. + S&H

To purchase, send a cheque or money order to Barbara Brooks-Worrell, 618 384th St. S, Roy, WA, 98580, contact Barbara at 360.400.2823, or buy it now with PayPal™ below.

Beige/Red	Black/Grey	White

Colors

White Black Beige/off-white

 

Cashmere Roving

$12/oz. + S&H (7.8% sales tax in WA)

Black Cashmere Roving	Off-White Cashmere Roving	White Cashmere Roving

Raising Cashmere Goats

Cashmere Goats are bred so they kid in February and March. This is a good time for people interested in purchasing kids to select their goats. Kids are normally weaned at around three months of age.  Cashmeres are intelligent, curious, and make great pets.

Dr. Barbara Brooks-Worrell and Mark Worrell | Ol West Farms | 618 384th St S, Roy, WA 98580 | 360.400.2823

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