Author:Braun, ALDate:Apr 1999Rare, luxury or speciality animal fibres have an exclusively and characteristic, that are rarely associated with other fibres. Their scarcity is due to the fact that they are difficult to produce on a large scale, because of climatic conditions ...Read more
Author:Botha, Anton F; Roux, JADate:Nov 2008South Africa has over 4 million indigenous goats (Boer, Savannah and Nguni/Mbusi breeds), many of which have two coats of fibre, namely a cashmere like fine down and a coarse guard hair. These goats are primarily kept for their meat, milk and ...Read more
Author:Botha, Anton F; Roux, JADate:Nov 2008South Africa has over 4 million indigenous goats (Boer, Savannah and Nguni/Mbusi breeds), many of which have two coats of fibre, namely a cashmere-like fine down and a coarse guard hair. These goats are primarily kept for their meat, milk and ...Read more
Author:Botha, Anton F; Roux, JADate:Nov 2008South Africa has over 4 million indigenous goats (Boer, Savannah and Nguni/Mbusi breeds), many of which have two coats of fibre, namely a cashmere-like fine down and a coarse guard hair. These goats are primarily kept for their meat, milk and ...Read morecb
Author:Hunter, LawranceDate:Nov 2012Although luxury animal fibres, excluding silk, represent far less than 0.1% of global fibre production, they play a very significant role in the luxury, high value-added end of the market, notably the apparel market, being renowned for their ...Read more
Author:Hunter, LawranceDate:Nov 2012Although luxury animal fibres, excluding silk, represent far less than 0.1% of global fibre production, they play a very significant role in the luxury, high value-added end of the market, notably the apparel market, being renowned for their ...Read more
Author:Braun, ALDate:Jan 2003Three hundred combs for combing cashmere hair, constructed by CSIR, were provided to the farmers free of charge. Farmers have earned in total plus minus R11 000 income from harvesting cashmere hair for the 2002 combing season. Farmers have ...Read more
Author:Department of Science and TechnologyDate:Apr 2005During the research period the project was funded by the CSIR and in 2001 the Poverty Alleviation programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) became involved in the project. The project was funded by DST to the amount of kR5700 ...Read more
Author:Department of Science and TechnologyDate:Apr 2005During the research period the project was funded by the CSIR and in 2001 the Poverty Alleviation programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) became involved in the project. The project was funded by DST to the amount of kR5700 ...Read more
Author:Braun, ALDate:Oct 1998This paper reports on the progress that has been made with the utilisation and promotion of fine down (cashmere type) fibre production from indigenous goat breeds in South Africa and on the results obtained on samples received during the past ...Read more