Comments on: Gosht masaledar (with edits)

By: j.

j. — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:07:22 +0000

Nope! The numbers are right, it’s just that I interjected that parenthetical remark about cashmere down costing $89/lb and that confused you.

What I wrote was, comparing undyed top, cashmere was around $160/lb, whereas Optim merino was $128/lb. Optim is thus cheaper.

Cashmere down, not top, is around $89/lb and thus cheaper than cashmere top and Optim top.

By: Hookie Lee

Hookie Lee — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:03:09 +0000

sorry to be a pain but I think you have a mistake in para three under the photo clip from Vogue of the cashmere, wool, alpaca fibres etc… when you give the commercial (‘market’) prices of Optim as against cashmere – i think you have the prices reversed because you comment that Optim is cheaper when you actually have it appearing as more expensive (or so it seems to me and I admit I am not clued up on these matters!)You have optim at 128 dollars a pound and cashmere at 89 dollars a pound and given that a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of iron Im assuming that this means that the optim should be cheaper than the cashmere or there wouldnt be a point in putting wool through this process unless it was commercially advantageous as in comparing it favourably to cashmere but without the heavier cost (??)Sorry for being geeky nitpicky…

By: j.

j. — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:06:22 +0000

Kate, all I know so far is that it’s a good insulator (duh), but whether that’s due to the type of protein or the structure, I got nothing. (Yet, at least.)

By: MKLawrie

MKLawrie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:41:10 +0000

Wow, what a great post! Thank you for the updates and fiber education.
Mary

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:22:11 +0000

ps, when I was living in China the best ever hangover food was goat soup. You had to go to a different area of town to get it, where all the people from XinJin had their shops, but it was completely worth it.

I never would have thought that goat could taste that good, btu even sober, the soup was approaching transendentally good.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:19:45 +0000

I know this is not the focus of the topic, since this was aimed at cahsmere v. wool, not general fibre-education. So, I will happily be ignored. However, I can’t seem to find this out on my own and it’s driving me anxious. Perhaps you know?

What makes silk so warm? Is it something to do with the fibres? I believe that relative warmness in wool and other fibres has to do with the length of the fibre and how they lay on each other, but am I making that up? Or conflating it with softness, perhaps. Is there somewhere you could point me where I could go off and answer my own question?

Someone told me that they passed a cashmere farm the other day. In Australia. The idea made me not a little cranky, I must say.

I await both your reply and the outcome of all this hoo-hah with bated breath…