Maybe you have a lot of cashmere sweaters, cashmere scarves or cashmere coats in your closet, but do you really know cashmere? And what’s the difference between cashmere and wool?

Exactly, wool is from sheep as known to all, but the cashmere only comes from goat.

The collection of wool is like a haircut for a sheep, and the wool collection worker just like a barber to shaved it all off with a scissor. Each sheep can produce several kilograms of wool every year, in another words, one sheep can create several wool sweaters for one adult yearly.

However, the cashmere grows in the hairy root of goat coarsely long hair, and to collect it, the professional worker should comb it with a special iron comb from the root, just like combing down hair piece by piece. But unlike the prolific sheep, every goat can but harvest a few grams of cashmere. Generally speaking, dozens of goats means only one piece of cashmere sweater in a year.

Less is more, that is to say one thing is highly priced if it is rare. This word is just for cashmere, and it is the key point that why a cashmere sweater is more expensive than a wool sweater.