Since it is just now the beginning of Spring, it is time to harvest cashmere. Cashmere comes from goats. Almost all goats have an undercoat that they grow for the winter. Cashmere goats are simply goats that have been bred to have long enough fiber to spin. The goats may be sheared, but then you also have all the hair I prefer to comb the cashmere while it is shedding out and before the hair starts coming out, too. I use a variety of rakes and combs and may comb the goat 2 or 3 times until I get most of it. You see the photo of the combs and a bag of cashmere, the process of combing and in the third photo how the goat looks with one side combed and the other side not yet combed. This is a labor intensive process with a fairly small harvest. That is why real cashmere is valuable. Much of the cashmere made into sweaters these days has an amount of fine sheep's wool in it. That is why you may be able to get a "cashmere" sweater for cheap.
