Cashmere is a rare special animal fibers (wool and sheep are different), is a precious textile raw materials, foreign called "fiber to the diamond," "soft gold." As the Kashmir region of Asia was in the history of cashmere exports to the European distribution center, so called customary international cashmere as "Kashmir Cashmere)"; China with its homonym for "cashmere."Cashmere is combed from the goats to take down the hair, which the goats produced by the best quality hair, goat hair removal each spring is the occasion, with a special iron bars on the crawl from goat hair body, known as the original down. Primary washed down by carding, removing the original fabric of the coarse, dead hair and dander obtained the cashmere, called dehaired. Cashmere white, blue, purple three colors, of which the most precious Cashmere. China dehaired quality standards are divided into five grades, and the impurity rate in accordance with rough grading and length indicators, Cashmere and Zi Rong's grading standards are also different.Cashmere is a long look at the goat skin, cover the roots in a thin layer of coarse goat's fine wool, winter cold to grow, resist the cold, after warming spring off, adapt naturally to climate.

The main producingCashmere-producing countries in the world mainly in China, Mongolia, Iran, India, Afghanistan and Turkey, with China the world's total output of about 16000-17000 tons of 50-60%, and the best quality, the main origin for the Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang , Liaoning, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Ningxia, Tibet, Qinghai and other provinces, the highest yield of Inner Mongolia, the best quality. Qinghe County, Hebei Province, known as the cashmere of all, China's largest cashmere processing and distribution center. Since 1994, nine months each year in late trade fairs held in cashmere industry, most recently for the 2008 September 26 to 30 organized by the Chinese Qing 15th International Fair of cashmere and hair products.Cashmere featuresIrregular and thin cashmere and deep curl, the scale layer wool factory and cortical layer, there is no medullary layer, scales a density of about, approximately circular cross section fibers with diameters even smaller than the fine wool The average fineness over the 14-16um, fineness irregularity is small, about 20%, the length is generally 35-45mm, length, strength and elongation, moisture than wool, set thin, thin, soft, smooth waxy, keep warm in a.

Fiber strength is moderate, flexible, and has a natural soft color. Cashmere acid, alkali, heat-sensitive response than fine wool, even at a lower temperature and lower concentration of acid and alkali conditions, the fiber damage is also significant to the chlorinated oxidants particularly sensitive.Cashmere products, choice of materialsThe international market, the quality of cashmere products, good and bad. Many businesses in order to reduce the cost price, or join the wool and other fibers, or use 28-30MM 16 microns or less raw material. But some stick with the professional top brand of 15 micron fineness so, about the length of 38MM materials, ensuring high-end luxury cashmere products as status.

Detection of cashmere fiberA lot of cashmere fiber quality indicators, including cashmere content, fiber length / fineness of indicators need to be a professional testing organization to complete. According to the textile ministry standard, cashmere content of 95% or more of pure cashmere, finished content can be marked to sell 100% cashmere. Cashmere content of less than 95% of the classified as cashmere blended products must be marked in detail the various blends authentic materials before the actual percentage of sales, such as 85% silk 15% cashmere, not vaguely expressed as velvet, cashmere blended or blended . Professional testing organization for product testing report of the legal basis for labeling.