Why is cashmere so expensive?

    I love the cashmere’s clothes and accessories  because they are so soft, warm and good looking, it’s so nice to touch them all the time. I have only two cashmere’s things in my wardrobe and not the purest ones. Cashmere is too expensive for me and I finally decided to find out why.

    In the XVI century, mountain goats live in Tibet, Kashmir. Hence the name "cashmere." In the most common version, Europe learned about expensive wool after the return of Napoleon from an Eastern military campaign. He presented weightless shawl with a beautiful name “pashmina” as a gift to Josephine, which was so fine that it can be easily drawn through a gold ring.

    The thinnest (5 times thinner than a human hair) and longest fibers of cashmere have a name “pashmina”. Them combed out from goat’s chest and belly. From one goat possible to get only 50 gr., therefore the shawl made from pashmina a truly precious gift.    

   Today in the collections of designers are increasingly flashing beautiful cashmere things, made not out of pure fiber, but mixed with other materials (linen, silk, etc.). In trend are natural colors - white (the most expensive), brown, black and gray, a yellowish-brown is also popular. The cashmere sweaters are favorites of any season, especially turtlenecks’ type, cardigans, jackets and sweaters polo.

    Cashmere is an easy warm wild goats’ down, combed out by hands. One animal gives 200 gr. of down in a year. By the way, for a knitted sweater we need down of 4.6 goats. That's why the cashmere’s things are so expensive.