About Annapurna Luxury

Our supplier, Cocowai Cashmere Shop, sources our products from a small family run factory in Nepal, producing an ever increasing range of luxury hand woven cashmere shawls, stoles, wraps, knitwear and accessories in more than 200 hand dyed colors.

Much of our yarn comes from the Himalayan Mountain Goat, and a little from the Great Mongolian Desert. Traditionally, goats are kept in small groups and left to roam freely in the mountains during the daytime but brought in at night to protect them from predators. They will often be kept inside and on the ground floor of houses whilst the family sleeps upstairs. This has been a clever farming practice for hundreds of years, as the warmth from the animals rises and keeps everyone warmer upstairs.

When the weather gets warmer, the goats begin to moult, which is when they are combed and their beautiful yarn is collected. They are not shawn like sheep, but the yarn is delicately combed out and they are healthy and happy and able to produce excellent, strong and conditioned yarn.