Cashmere

This precious fibre is obtained from the fleece of the Hircus goat, which has been bred by Asian peoples for over 7,500 years in the most inaccessible areas of the Himalayas.Today the species can be found in the Xinjiang region as well as in Tibet and Mongolia.

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Guanaco

The guanaco is the South American camelid most able to adapt to the widest variety of environmental conditions. It can be found from the Peruvian plateaus to the Argentine Pampas and the Strait of Magellan.

Vicuña

The vicuña, the smallest member of the Camelidae family (guanaco, lama, alpaca), lives in the wild on the Cordillera of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.Historically it was considered a gift from Inti, the God of the sun who could melt the snows transforming them into the streams that nourish the earth.

Only the royal family was allowed to wear the precious fibres. The legends connected to this animal are so embedded in the culture of the Andean countries that magical properties are still attributed to it to this day.

Camel

The camel belongs to the Camelidae Gray family and includes two subspecies: one with a single hump, the dromedary, which is particularly widespread in Africa and Arabia, and one with two humps, the camel in the strict sense of the word, the Camelus bactrianus that can survive even in the coldest climates of Mongolia and China.

 

Yangir

Yangir Cashmere is a family of fabrics created from the precious fibres of the Siberian Ibex, an animal that lives up to 5,700 meters of altitude in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia as well as in the high plateaus of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Other fibres

For the first time ever Lanificio Colombo has been able to utilize the fibres of traditional fur animals fort he production of yarns and fabrics. It took numerous years to convince the breeders to collect the hairs of these animals after they are lost during the natural cycle of fur regeneration.

Lanificio Colombo, Italy                     www.lanificiocolombo.com/gb_en/lanificio

Loro Piana, Italy                                 www.loropiana.com/en/

Vitale Barberis Canonico, Itay            www.vitalebarberiscanonico.com/       

Lanificio Egidio Ferla, Italy                  ferla.it/eng/index.php

Ermenegildo Zegna, Italy                    www.zegnagroup.com/lanificio/tessuti