Mohair, a fibre with a pearly, almost steely brilliance, is used in large quantities for summer garments, but also in other blends to increase warmth and decrease weight. Vitale Barberis Canonico selects high-quality, South African raw materials.
Mohair was known in biblical times and came to South Africa in the 1800s where rearing and selection of the Angora goat became gradually more intensive. Today it is largely reared on the plains of the Eastern Cape, where Vitale Barberis Canonico selects its raw materials.
Attention must be paid to the lack of coarse hair content, or of dead or medullated fibres, as these cannot be dyed and the result for the end product (particularly visible in dark colours) is different coloured stripes which have a serious effect on the finished piece. For these reasons, we always use pure Cape mohair of finenesses between 23 and 32.5 microns.