What kind of fabric is cashmere?
Cashmere is a thin layer of fine hair that grows on the outer cortex of goats and hides in the roots of goat coarse hair. It grows when it is cold in winter, resists the cold, falls off when it is warm in spring, and naturally adapts to the climate. It is a rare special animal fiber. It is unmatched by all textile raw materials that can be used by human beings at present, so it is also called "soft gold".
Cashmere is wool combed by goats, among which cashmere goats produce the best wool quality. Every spring, when goats shed their hair, the wool caught from goats with a special iron comb is called raw wool. Cashmere obtained by combing the washed raw wool and removing coarse hair, dead hair and dander from the raw wool is called cashmere-free. Cashmere has three colors: white, blue and purple, of which white cashmere is the most precious.
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Advantages of cashmere fabric
One is slender, soft and warm. Cashmere is the best animal fiber. Cashmere fiber is composed of scales and cortex, and has no pith layer. The average diameter of cashmere fiber is mostly 14 ~ 16 μ m, and it has high natural curl, compact arrangement during spinning and weaving, and good cohesion, so it has good warmth retention. Cashmere fiber scales are small and smooth, with an air layer in the middle, so it is light in weight and smooth to the touch.
Second, the color is naturally soft. Cashmere scales are round, cashmere fibers are hollow and there is no pith layer, so the luster of cashmere is rich and soft. Cashmere fiber has uniform fineness, low density, regular circular cross section and strong hygroscopicity, which can fully absorb dyes and is not easy to fade.
The third is flexibility and elasticity. Cashmere fiber has large crimp number, crimp rate and crimp recovery rate, which is suitable for processing into plump, soft and elastic knitted fabrics, comfortable and natural to wear and has good reduction characteristics.
In particular, it does not shrink after washing and has good shape retention. Cashmere sweater has the strongest water absorption among all textile fibers, and its moisture regain is above 15%. If a cashmere sweater is soaked in water, it will be completely wet in a few seconds, while a sweater needs more than half a minute to get wet.
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