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A woman in her sixties and her adult daughter wearing similar camel cashmere cardigans

A Piece Meant to Outlast You: Why Cashmere Gets...

Ask a room of cashmere owners over sixty whether they have a piece that once belonged to a parent, and more hands go up than for almost any other garment...

A Piece Meant to Outlast You: Why Cashmere Gets...

Ask a room of cashmere owners over sixty whether they have a piece that once belonged to a parent, and more hands go up than for almost any other garment...

A cashmere sweater drying flat on a white towel by a linen-curtained window

Caring for Cashmere: How a Sweater Lasts Twenty...

A well-made cashmere sweater does not fail from age; it fails from a handful of avoidable habits — hot water, wire hangers, plastic storage bags, and no rest between wears....

Caring for Cashmere: How a Sweater Lasts Twenty...

A well-made cashmere sweater does not fail from age; it fails from a handful of avoidable habits — hot water, wire hangers, plastic storage bags, and no rest between wears....

A cashmere thread beside a match on a heatproof stone dish

Five Ways to Tell Real Cashmere From Fake, at Home

Cashmere is one of the most convincingly imitated fibres in retail, and most imitations pass a casual glance in a shop mirror. None of them survive five simple checks that...

Five Ways to Tell Real Cashmere From Fake, at Home

Cashmere is one of the most convincingly imitated fibres in retail, and most imitations pass a casual glance in a shop mirror. None of them survive five simple checks that...

Four folded undyed cashmere garments in white, camel, taupe and charcoal

The Natural Palette: Why We Never Dye Our Cashmere

White, camel, taupe, and a deep pewter grey are not a seasonal colour story. They are the four base tones that a Mongolian cashmere goat actually grows, and every OYU...

The Natural Palette: Why We Never Dye Our Cashmere

White, camel, taupe, and a deep pewter grey are not a seasonal colour story. They are the four base tones that a Mongolian cashmere goat actually grows, and every OYU...

A herding couple combing a goat at dawn on the Gobi steppe

The People of Cashmere: A Day With a Herding Fa...

At half past five in the morning in Bayandalai soum, Ömnögovi province, the sky is the colour of unbleached wool and the temperature has not yet climbed past four degrees....

The People of Cashmere: A Day With a Herding Fa...

At half past five in the morning in Bayandalai soum, Ömnögovi province, the sky is the colour of unbleached wool and the temperature has not yet climbed past four degrees....

Macro photograph of fine ivory cashmere fibres

The Science of Softness: What Microns Actually ...

A micron is one-millionth of a metre, and it is the single measurement that separates cashmere that feels soft in the shop from cashmere that still feels soft five winters...

The Science of Softness: What Microns Actually ...

A micron is one-millionth of a metre, and it is the single measurement that separates cashmere that feels soft in the shop from cashmere that still feels soft five winters...