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 this with the demand for modern, perfectly designed creations that become long-lasting favorites.
The Cashmere Goat
Cashmere goats (lat. Capra hircus) live in the remote mountain regions of the Central Asian highlands and their outskirts. They are mainly grazed in the Himalayas and their high mountain foothills - landscapes with extremely cold and harsh climates. In order to survive, the goats develop fine undercoats that protect them from the cold and damp - a delicate duvet of soft, silky quality.
The colors range from white, cream and gray to brown, black and spotted. Long guard hair covers the downy, soft wool. As pure herbivores, Cashmere goats feed on grass, buds, leaves, bark and twigs. They defy the adverse living conditions and survive on the limited food supply in barren, arid regions.
In conjunction with global warming, the goat population is under severe threat from overgrazing, water shortages and desertification
Fiber & Yarn
The raw material from which cashmere yarn is made is the downy hair of the cashmere goat. It grows under the longer, covering contour hairs and is only formed 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, keeps its shape, biodegradable, breathable, and provides heat and cold insulation.
From the fiber to the yarn: Allude places great value on the highest quality standards and uses only high-quality cashmere. Four parameters determine the quality of the cashmere fiber: length, cross-section, color and proportion of remaining guard hairs in the raw material. Very high-quality fibers are usually between 38 and 42 millimeters long. The diameter of particularly fine hairs varies between 14 and 18 microns - one sixth of the diameter of a human hair.
Natural white cashmere is the most valuable. It is the easiest to dye and process. Valuable yarn should not contain more than 0.1 percent guard hairs. The best yarns are used to create 100% cashmere knitwear that meets the following standards: