Raw Material

The raw materials are usually imported from the high grazing pastures of Ladakh and Leh where yaks, goats , sheeps and angoras are found. The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft ,warm and sleek wool. Angora is usually found in grey, white, black, white and cream colours. Since they have amazing capabilities of high birth rate and death rate, they are bred for about two or more years and then sold off as meat after the wool extraction. Wool is extracted from these rabbits within every 2-3 months. Angora wool is very soft so it is manually spun on the “takli” which is the spindle. Angora shawls are made of wefts of angora fibre and warps of merino wool to make patterns and motifs on the surface.

Pashmina wool is the most superior and finest quality of wool available in the market. Pashmina is a type of fine cashmere wool and the textiles like shawls, stoles and mufflers made from it. The wool comes from pashmina goats, which is a very special breed of goat indigenous to high altitudes of the Himalayas and higher altitudes and is found only at a lowest altitude of 13,500 feet above the sea level. It is really warm and has amazing capacity to capture heat within its air pockets. It is usually imported from countries like Tibet. Pashmina is really expensive due to all of its quality and other measures. The pashmina used are usually of 14-15 micro diameters. Merino is one of the most expensive and most consumed wool in the world. It was first found in Australia. And then it was imported to other countries. It is finest of all because these animals consume best nutrient rich grass and amazing blend of water, sun and air. Marino wool is extreamely soft and fine as compared to other wool which is very coarse and rough in nature. Usually yarns of diameter of 24 microns are used for the production of shawls, stoles and mufflers. Besides Australian wool, local cross wool in the purest form is also handspun and used for making costumes and clothing as it is amazingly soft and has a good handle and feel to it. This wool varies from 26 to 30 microns. The other wool used is the local sheep wool mostly goes into knitting footwear, purses and bags. the count of the yarn used for the body usually goes from 2/44’s to 2/ 50’s. Yak fiber commonly used to refer yak fiber wool produced from the coat hair of yaks which is known as Bos grunniens. It is a long-haired mammal which is mainly found in the tundra, the Himalayan region, Russia , Central Asia, Mangolia and Tibetan Plateau. Cashmere has already been placed very high in the market as yak wool has the capability to be sold as a luxury product due to its properties like softness, breathability, odour resistance and the (currently) sustainable and eco-friendly means used for gathering the fibers. In woollen garments, air pockets are formed between the fibers that lessen the rate of heat exchange. Three types of yak wool are used in the textile industry that is the coarse, mid type and the down fibre. Out of which the mid-type: with a diameter size between 25–40 microns, this fiber is naturally durable but not stronger than the outer fine as the down fiber for the textile industry