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June Cashmere is participating in the Cashmere on Ice contest to help bring awareness of the impact of melting glaciers on fine fiber producing communities. See how you can win prizes for your original design in cashmere, including $150 gift certificate with June Cashmere!

Introducing 100% camel yarn by June Cashmere Meet our new camel yarn Sourced from the desert regions of Central Asia, our 100% DK weight camel yarn is comprised of the downy undercoat of Bactrian camels. After it's scoured, we de-hair the fiber in our facility in Kyrgyzstan before sending it to Yorkshire, England, to be milled into yarn and dyed. The result is a luxurious, soft yarn that shares the properties of cashmere but at a lower price point.  Properties of camel yarn Softness Camel down is smooth and soft, comparable to cashmere. In fact, when we soft-launched this new yarn at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, we did a blind touch test with booth attendees to see if...

Behind the scenes of launching a new yarn Do you wonder what goes into launching a new yarn? Here's a behind-the-scenes look at some of the steps.  Shepherd family riding a Bactrian camel, Southern Kyrgyzstan Fiber In this case, it's a 100% camel fiber, an offering that originated from the de-hairing facility in Kyrgyzstan. With the mill's ability to work with additional fibers, our founder Sy Belohlavek sourced Bactrian camel fiber from Central Asia. Few camels are in Kyrgyzstan today even though the camel is necessary for nomadic life as a means of travel, carrying goods, and providing meat and dairy, as well as fiber for shelter and cloth.  Bactrian camels are found in desert regions in the Far East (Mongolia/China)...

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