The earliest use of cashmere dates back 6,000 years to the Anatolian (Asia Minor) peninsula. At that time, people already knew how to use the wool of sheep to keep warm and protect themselves from the cold, or as a decorative object.
However, at that time, people mainly used wool and did not yet know how to extract the more precious cashmere.
It was not until the 15th and 16th centuries that the inhabitants of Kashmir discovered cashmere, and they stripped these soft fibres from wool to make beautiful shawls.
This product was aesthetically pleasing, soft and smooth to the touch, and attracted attention from all over the world. People call this fabric by the place name Cashmere.
The middle of the 19th century was the stage of rapid development of the British manufacturing industry, British merchants took great pains to transport cashmere raw materials from Kashmir to the United Kingdom, in the textile industry at the time the town of Bradford for processing, the official opening of the world’s cashmere processing industry.
A number of old cashmere brands were born in this period. At that time, the British cashmere processing and manufacturing, and even the entire British textile industry, both in terms of scale and grade have reached the world’s highest level.
At the end of the 19th century, the Scottish manufacturer Joseph Dawson, improved the wool combing method of cashmere, so that the fine cashmere wool from the rough outer hair separated from the purity of the cashmere greatly enhanced, the world’s cashmere manufacturing centre also transferred to Scotland.
Born in Italy in the 1920s, Loro Piana has become the world’s largest cashmere manufacturer and the largest buyer of raw materials, thanks to its extreme taste and dedication to the art of beautiful cashmere.
In the 1990s, with the gradual opening up of China’s import and export rights, as well as the rapid development of China’s cashmere production process and the natural advantages of being the world’s largest cashmere raw material producer, China’s cashmere products quickly flooded into the international market.
A number of excellent domestic cashmere enterprises rose rapidly, and the world’s largest cashmere production area in China, of which the Inner Mongolia production area occupies more than 70% of the market share. The world’s best cashmere yarn producers are also in China.
With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, luxury high-grade cashmere clothing occupies more and more people’s wardrobe.
