Yak Handcraft Yarn Characteristics:

Yak is known as the plateau of the plateau. It is a unique breed of cattle that grows on the alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its adjacent areas in China. It is called yag in Tibetan. China has more than 3,000 years of yak domestication history. There are more than 12 million yaks in these provinces, including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces, accounting for more than 85% of the world's total. The rest are distributed in Mongolia, Russia and Central Asian region.

Yaks are mammals living in the highest altitudes in the world.The yak is harvested once a year. The annual calorie yield of adult yak is 1.17~2.62kg; the young cattle are 1.30~1.35kg, of which the coarse hair and the fluff are half. YAK hair is very thin, with a diameter of less than 20 microns and a length of 2.6 to 3.5 cm. It has irregular curvature, and the scales are tightly looped, with soft luster, strong elasticity and smooth handfeel. Yak velvet is warmer and softer than ordinary wool, and has been used in the field of garment production in recent years.

Our natural dark brown yak is combed seriously before spinning luxurious yak yarn in our worsted spun system, with the improvement of processing technology, yak fiber will be widely recognized and become a high-grade textile raw material after cashmere.

We can custom made any yarn count on your request:

Lace(Single, Lightfinger); Superfine(Fingering, Sock)

Fine(Sports);Light(DK,Light worsted)

Medium(Aran, Worsted);Bulky(Chunky,Rug)