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  Scottish Cashmere by Scottish Cashmere Store
Cashmere is simply the softest, warmest and finest wool available.
From the velvety undercoat (or down) of the Cashmere goat in the high plateaus of Asia, the wool is collected only when the animals shed their coats.
Our Cashmere products are specially selected from only the finest producers, mainly in the Scottish Borders, who are internationally renowned for their levels of quality and design.
scottishcashmerestore.com   (353 words)

  
  Cashmere Goats
Cashmere is the term for the soft down undercoat of Cashmere goats.
Cashmere in the U.S. Cashmere goats in the United States originated from feral goats found in Australia.
Cashmere goats are raised for their fiber, meat, and ability to rejuvenate weedy pastures.
home.earthlink.net /~fibergoat/id12.html   (577 words)

  
 What is Cashmere?
Cashmere is a luxuriant wool that many a fashion-conscious woman has dreamed of wearing against her skin.
Cashmere is the wool or fur of the Kashmir goat.
Cashmere is harvested from the goats during their annual molting season through the shedding or the shearing of their down.
www.wisegeek.com /what-is-cashmere.htm   (495 words)

  
 Small Farm Center   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cashmere fibers must be separated, either by combing out the down or by using a commercial dehairer on sheared fibers.
Cashmere down growth begins on about the longest day of the year and stops on about the shortest day.
Cashmere down is either white, brown, or gray in solid colored goats.
www.sfc.ucdavis.edu /pubs/brochures/Cashmeregoats.html   (1932 words)

  
 Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute
Cashmere is the fine fiber that comes from the soft undercoat or under layer of hair of a goat.
Sheep wool is being blended with dehaired cashmere and the fibers are being sold as 100 percent cashmere.
When the word "cashmere" alone is used in promotions, it must be for a 100 percent cashmere garment and not a blend.
www.cashmere.org /news/news_11-26-2000_gr.htm   (1712 words)

  
 Cashmere Carpet Online Store: Cashmere silk carpet, Kashmir, cashmere carpets,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The cashmere carpet is made predominantly in the Srinagar area of Kashmir, and generally confined to the men of the family, though nowadays, women are also entering the trade of cashmere carpets.
The pattern for a cashmere carpet is encoded depending on the number of knots per square inch of the pattern.
Thus a cashmere carpet may be made of pure wool in which case the highest quality is 22x22 (484) knots per square inch.
www.himalayanmart.com /cashmerecarpet/cashmerecarpet.php   (563 words)

  
 Cashmere
Chinese cashmere, because of its fineness, length and whiteness, is the primary source for better sweaters, Mongolian cashmere is preferred for fine quality wovens as well as knits.
After the cashmere is scoured, it must be dehaired, a process which separates the coarse guard hair from the very fine underdown used to make cashmere garments.
Cashmere fibers become increasingly soft with wearing and is referred as the Fiber of Kings.
home.netvigator.com /~kctrade/cashmere.htm   (501 words)

  
 cashmere
Cashmere is one of the world's true luxury fibers.
Every cashmere fiber is so valuable that extraordinary steps are taken to assure none are lost.
Cashmere was expensive and mom bought for the long pull not just a season.
www.designervintage.com /cashmere.htm   (368 words)

  
 RIRDC: The New Rural Industries - A Hanbook for Farmers and Investors-Alpacas
The cashmere industry is well organised, has one industry-owned marketing structure, has excellent contacts with overseas processors, and has had excellent scientific and technological research to direct its development.
Cashmere is produced by commercially farmed `Australian cashmeres' and by feral goats.
It is possible to purchase feral goats (50 to 80 g cashmere per year) and domesticate them but it is now far easier to purchase domesticated and more productive `bred-on' cashmeres (120 to 200 g cashmere per year).
www.rirdc.gov.au /pub/handbook/cashmere.html   (931 words)

  
 Mongolia
Cashmere is an important export for Mongolia, contributing about 10% of its total export market, and is an important source of cash commerce.
There is a market for cashmere with a price that is supposed to vary as to quality, but it just doesn't seem to work that way.
The UB processors expect the herders to deliver cashmere to their door or at least to the aimag center cashmere warehouse.
www.capcas.com /Mongolia.html   (7202 words)

  
 Moda Mongolia - Cashmere shop
Thanks for taking the time to visit our new website, Moda Mongolia is a very trendy high quality brand offering the best in Mongolian cashmere, yak and camel products.
We are currently in full expansion, opening a shop in Oxford this winter and looking at new locations all the time to offer our brand to our customers wherever they might be.
In the mean time, we wish you happy surfing on the site, and hope to see and hear from you soon!
www.moda-cashmere.com   (255 words)

  
 Cashmere - Cashmere Scarf - Boutique Jewels
Cashmere is the wool of the Capra Hircus goat, which is found at elevations of 14,000 feet and above, where temperatures rarely rise above minus 30 degrees centigrade in winter.
Cashmere wool is available in several grades, including "Grade A", "Grade B" and so on.
We offer only the highest quality cashmere products made with "Grade A" cashmere, and our quality can be compared to similar products sold in stores like Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman or Saks Fifth Avenue.
www.boutiquejewels.com /cashmere.html   (304 words)

  
 Cashmere - AOL Music
Cashmere wool is wool obtained from the Cashmere goat and is also known as Pashmina.
Cashmere wood, the name of a scent in the perfume industry.
Cashmere sweaters for women and cashmere sweaters for men, cashmere information as well as cashmere accessories, baby cashmere sweaters, cashmere scarves,...
music.aol.com /artist/cashmere/16328/main   (124 words)

  
 Cashmere
Cashmere is the underdown shed annually by goats living in the high, dry plateaus surrounding the Gobi Desert, which stretch from Northern China into Mongolia.
There are significant differences in the quality of cashmere, and therefore, the price of the fiber that can be used in a cashmere garment.
Dying harms the feel of the cashmere so this is important.
www.bensilver.com /style04/about_cashmere.htm   (969 words)

  
 Mongolia Cashmere
Cashmere is one of the softest, warmest, and longest lasting materials on the market today.
Cashmere is said to be eight times warmer than sheep's wool, and about that many times softer.
The quality of cashmere wool is measured by its length, texture, and the diameter of the fiber.
www.american.edu /TED/mongolia.htm   (3231 words)

  
 Cashmere : Cashmere products are famous for kashmiri embroidery
The word “cashmere” is sometimes applied to fabrics that contain other fibers in addition to cashmere wool.This cashmere fiber is so luxurious that the Arc of the Covenant of the old testament was lined and curtained with it.
Cashmere is the down shed annually by cashmre goats living in the high, dry plateau.
We have got huge collection of cashmere shawls, cashmere mufflers, cashmere scarves and cashmerestoles which are made some from pure cashmere wool and some from mixture of Silk-pashmina in all possible colors, in plain, with embroidery work, bead work and in printed.
www.himalayanmart.com /cashmere/cashmere.php   (1010 words)

  
 Cashmere   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is then meticulously hand stained and hand rubbed to give it tonality and a rich and mellow appearance.
Cashmere has the versatility to be utilized in upholstery as well as headboards, case goods, and a variety of wall applications.
The handwork required on Cashmere cannot be done on a whole hide, and therefore, this product is sold in half hides ranging from 24 to 25 sq.
www.mooreandgilesinc.com /pages/styles/cashmere.htm   (117 words)

  
 Vintage Fashion Guild - Cashmere Sweaters
Cashmere sweaters were knit not only in lovely solid colors, they were also knit in intarsia designs.
Cashmere is made from the fur of the cashmere, or Kashmir, goat.
This fur may also be labeled “cashmere”, but it is not as soft nor as long as the fur from the belly and throat.
www.vintagefashionguild.org /content/view/16/75   (1344 words)

  
 Breeds of Livestock - Cashmere Goats   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cashmere the fiber of kings, produced from the lowly Cashmere goat.
Sixty percent of the worlds supply of cashmere is produced in China and the remainder from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kashmere, Australia and New Zealand.
The first Cashmere goats were imported from Australia and New Zealand in the late 1980's.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/goats/cashmere   (223 words)

  
 CASHMERe Home Page
CASHMERe stands for "Coherence Algorithms for SHared MEmory aRchitectures" and is an ongoing effort to provide efficient, scalable, shared memory with minimal hardware support.
CASHMERe attempts to bridge the performance gap between shared memory emulations on networks of workstations and tightly-coupled cache-coherent multiprocessors while using minimal hardware support.
In the context of CASHMERe, early simulation results indicate that NCC-NUMA (Non Cache Coherent Non Uniform Memory Access) machines can greatly improve the performance of DSM systems, and approach that of fully hardware coherent multiprocessors.
www.cs.rochester.edu /research/cashmere   (906 words)

  
 Cashmere Sweaters from Scotland
Isle of Skye Cashmere LLC shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this site or the performance of the products, even if Isle of Skye Cashmere LLC has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Isle of Skye Cashmere LLC may deliver notice to you by means of e-mail, a general notice on the site, or by other reliable method to the address you have provided to Isle of Skye Cashmere LLC.
Isle of Skye Cashmere LLC does not and cannot review all communications and materials posted to or created by users accessing the site, and is not in any manner responsible for the content of these communications and materials.
www.isleofskyecashmere.com /terms.asp   (1217 words)

  
 Cashmere :: Online Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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In selecting and implementing Cashmere communities should strive Cashmere develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce exposure to Cashmere reduce initiation, and increase cessation.
Improvements in each category will contribute to reductions in tobacco-related morbidity and death, and success in one area Cashmere Cashmere to improvements in the other areas as well.
sukanah.org /cashmere.html   (235 words)

  
 Cashmere shawl
By contrast, the warmth that this knitted pure cashmere shawl gives when worn wrapped around the body, is greater than a woven pashmina, as it moulds itself to the form in soft folds, trapping more air in its fibres.
Gathered and worn in a scarf effect with a cashmere jumper, cashmere sweater or cashmere cardigan top, there is not only the luxury of ultimate warmth, but also the chic effect of designer cashmere knitwear.
This cashmere shawl is offered in fl only and measures approximately 50” x 74” (longest side) and a depth of approx 32-34”.
www.cashmere-uk.com /cashmere-clothing-shawls.htm   (344 words)

  
 Cashmere
The painting is of Sargent's neice, Reine Ormond, in an exotic cashmere shawl in seven different poses.
Clearly Cashmere is a painting of an 11 year old and not a 15 year old (or is it?), so it has to be Reine Violet, assuming all these dates are correct.
She went on to say that the heads had been painted from Rose-Marie but corrected this in a postscript: "I believe that in the procession of Persian Shawls Reine Ormond is the figure.
www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Cashmere.htm   (1076 words)

  
 Cashmere Wanderers AFC - Senior Team Managers
Halswell took there chance when a 50/50 clash with there striker and Cashmeres keeper saw the ball in the back of the net to go up 2/0.
Cashmere's season is back on track with a convincing victory at Somerfield Stadium.
Captain Mike Wallace showed he still has wheels to burn at the age of 38 blistering around 6 players (4 Cashmere and 2 Nomads) before being taken down in the box, providing 3 'rolley polleys' before the ref pointed to the spot.
www.cashmere-soccer.co.nz /senior/teams/first_mens_team.htm   (647 words)

  
 Cashmere Yarn at The Yarn Co.
This fine quality Cashmere is extremely soft and easy to work with (be careful though once you knit with it you may never want to knit with any other fiber again).
Not only does this Cashmere make luxurious sweaters, it also makes super soft scarves and hats.
Cashmere Breeze is a beautiful 100% cashmere yarn that comes in fabulous bright spring colors.
www.theyarnco.com /yarn/fiber/3   (204 words)

  
 Cashmere Shawls
Cashmere or Kashmir shawls were of a very soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat.
They acknowledge its comfort and convenience for the open carriage, or the sea-side promenade, but rarely recognize it for what it is, a garment capable of appearing the most feminine and graceful in the world.
The pattern is formed by two "needlemen," who work together, the one passing the silk down, and the other from beneath passing it up, while a third workman changes the silk for them when necessary.
www.victoriana.com /Cashmere/Cashmere-shawls.html   (1342 words)

  
 Cashmere Company
Established in 1988, the Group is one of the three largest cashmere manufacturers in China.
In order to maintain quality and ensure a steady supply of the highest quality cashmere, the Group has agoat farm in Ningxia province approximately 500 hectares large.
All of our cashmere products are manufactured ourselves from our own raw materials in 8 factories across China.
all-cashmere.com /docs/about_us.htm   (379 words)

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