BE SWEET EXTRA FINE BABY MOHAIR

273 Raphine Road, Raphine, Virginia 24472

540-348-5220 orchardside@embarqmail.com

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BE SWEET

EXTRA FINE LACE WEIGHT BABY MOHAIR

100% BABY MOHAIR

Made in South Africa

25gms (230 yds)

5 sts = 1” US # 9

$13.50

This mohair yarn comes from the fleece of Angora goats that are the descendants of a breed originally from Tibet and brought from Turkmenistan to Turkey, where the Turks reserved the rare and precious yarn for rtoyalty. In 1830, the Turks shipped a group of does and castrated bucks to South Africa, not knowing that one doe was pregnant and would give birth to a male kid. Interbreading with local breeds eventually resulted in a hardier Angora goat, and now South Africa produces 65% of the worlds mohair.

This yarn was hand spun and dyed by women in South Africa under a job creation program that has offered opportunity in an economically depressed rural region with a 75% unemployment rate and little opportunity aside from hard labor in pineapple fields

Enjoy this beautiful product knowing that you have brought hope into a South African community and that a portion of your purchase is helping support the local school.