Categories: Materials

The angora rabbit has the finest fur of all kinds of wool. It is even finer than the cashmere goat. Due its light weight, the angora wool is often too fine to be used solely. It is common to mix...

Our Customers ask us again and again what the material “yak” actually is. We would like to enlighten you today :)

Yak is a bovine species and is called yak due to the noises it makes.

The wild yak is..

Alpaca wool is one of top-quality type of wools.

80% of alpacas live in the Andes mountains at a height of up to 600m. Other herds live in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. These animals get shorn only every two years

Cashmere – our personal favourite wool and also well represented amongst the collections of our designers :)

Cashmere wool comes from the cashmere goat, which underfur is processed into wool. Therefor the fur, which is very fine and curled, is combed-out. The yearly amount of fur of a cashmere goat is around 100-200 gram. In order to produce one pullover, it requires the hair of at least...

Wool represents about 3-4% of the amount of fibres in the world. Within this industry we can differentiate between three different types of sheep wool...

You have certainly heard of ramie. But do you actually know what kind of material ramie is?

You certainly know of the hemp plant. However, its fibres are not yet very common in the clothing industry. This is because ...

Silk is an animal fiber that is extracted from the cocoon of the mulberry silkworm. The cocoon of this worm consists of one single thread which can be up to 3km long. In order to ...

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Do you know about the positive properties of linen?