Cashmere/silk and bamboo shawl

摘要

Cashmere is often used by knitters for lace sweaters or lightweight shawls. It is amazing to think that it has an insulating quality greater than sheep's wool. Cashmere comes from Cashmere goats, whose fleece consists of a fine, soft undercoat comingled with a straighter and a coarser outer coat of guard hair. The fiber must be dehaired, a process that separates the coarse hairsrnfrom the fine. After dehairing the resulting fine fiber cashmere is ready to be spun into yarn. Much of this work is done by hand.