by Kate Knight | Feb 7, 2024 | Cashmere design, Sustainable Cashmere, Sustainable Cashmere
Recently, I asked on LinkedIn and Instagram what people would like to read in this newsletter and the answer came back definitively: tips on marketing sustainable cashmere. So I sat down and I started writing this … And then I stopped. The truth is, it has become so...
by Kate Knight | Jan 29, 2024 | Cashmere design
There are times when working remotely seems like the dream, especially when I think of standing on a freezing platform waiting for a train to take me home or being stuck in traffic on the M25! If you’d told a 16-year-old me that I would be a knitwear designer in rural...
by Kate Knight | Oct 19, 2023 | Cashmere design, Cashmere Thoughts
Unlock 6 Secrets of Cashmere Quality How to tell if cashmere is good quality (in person & online) It’s really easy to define the best quality cashmere: The staple length is 34- 36mm. And the micron is 14-15.5 microns OK, great. So I’ll just take my microscope...
by Kate Knight | Sep 18, 2023 | Cashmere Thoughts
A Tale of Wine, Luxury, and Craftsmanship The first clue should have been that I met my husband in a wine bar … at that point, he was a professor, but one who clearly had a passion for wine. Fast forward 13 years, and we found ourselves contemplating a permanent move...
by Kate Knight | Dec 1, 2022 | Sustainable Cashmere
Cashmere SHOULD be a totally renewable and biodegradable natural resource. Our friends, the cashmere goats are free range, grazing on the plains in Mongolia and China and in theory as long as they and their hearders are treated right, this luxury fibre has a high...