Separate Coarse Hairs from Cashmere by Hand Efficiently
Fluffy soft cashmere separated from the coarse guard hairs. It’s amazing how much guard hair there is!
We all love the velvety cloud feel of cashmere but the truth is that raw cashmere almost always starts as a mixed cloud of rough hairs and soft fluff that needs to be separated. I don’t know about you but as a busy mom with a full time job and a farm, I don’t have hours to pick out guard hairs one by one. That’s why I’ve been experimenting with dehairing techniques to figure out what gives me the most result in the shortest amount of time.
Here’s a tutorial showing a simple, efficient approach to dehairing cashmere with no tools and little time.
In the video below, I manually dehair chunks of cashmere in under 4 minutes. No tools required, just your hands and preferably a neutral background so you can see the guard hairs better.
Side Note: We don’t typically sell cashmere this hairy! The raw cashmere we sell has low guard hair contents so that handspinners can get to the spinning quicker.
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This is exquisite, heavily skirted, 1 ounce fleece samples fresh off our Cashmere Goats. These samples will have the best parts of fiber hand picked from our goats.
Fleece samples will be 13-17 microns and unwashed. Staple lengths vary from 1.3” - 2.5” but some are longer than that. There will be some low-moderate guard hairs and low amount of VM.
Available colors are White, Cream, Brown/Taupe.
