cashmere
100% Cashmere
Allude knitwear is made from one of the finest and most precious natural materials in the world. The high quality of its texture and the essence of its strengths make cashmere a high-quality product with lasting value. Allude combines the demand for modern, perfectly designed creations that become long-lasting favorite pieces.
The Cahmere Goat
Cashmere goats (Latin: Capra hircus) live in the remote mountain regions of the Central Asian highlands and their outlying areas. They are primarily grazed in the Himalayas and their high mountain foothills - landscapes with extremely cold and harsh climates. In order to survive, the goats develop the fine undercoat hair that protects them from cold and moisture - a delicate duvet with a soft, silky quality.
The colors range from white, cream and gray to brown, black and checkered. Long guard hair covers the downy soft wool hair.
As pure herbivores, cashmere goats feed on grasses, buds, leaves, bark and twigs. They defy the adverse living conditions and get by on the limited food supply in barren, arid areas.
In connection with global warming, the goat population is at great risk due to overgrazing, water shortages and desertification
Fiber and Yarn
The raw material from which the cashmere yarn is made is the downy hair of the cashmere goat. It grows under the longer, covering contour hairs and is only developed under extreme weather conditions.
Cashmere is a four-season fiber that is perfect for textile use. The protein fiber has many positive properties: It is light, resilient, dimensionally stable, biodegradable, breathable and heat and cold insulating.
From the fiber to the yarn: Allude values the highest quality standards and only uses high-quality cashmere. Four parameters determine the quality of the cashmere fiber: length, cross section, color and proportion of guard hairs remaining in the raw material. As a rule, very high-quality fibers are between 38 and 42 millimeters long. The diameter of particularly fine hair varies between 14 and 18 microns - one sixth of the diameter of a human hair.
Natural white cashmere is the most precious. It is the best to dye and process. Valuable yarn should not contain more than 0.1 percent awn hair.
The best yarns are used to create 100% cashmere knitwear that meets the following standards:
- OEKO-TEX® Standard 100
- Global recycle standard
- GRS process certification
- ISO 9001 certification
