Angora and Wool Blends What Buyers Should Check

Hair fibres change a knitwear range out of all proportion to their percentage. Ten percent angora in an acrylic ground produces a garment that looks and feels like a different product. It also produces questions you should answer before bulk.

What the Small Percentage Buys You

Angora creates a halo: fine fibres stand away from the surface and catch light, which reads as softness on the shelf and in photography.

It is warm for its weight, which suits an Autumn/Winter range where the garment has to feel substantial without being heavy.

It gives an AW knit wall variety. When six bodies share one yarn family, one hair-fibre blend can carry a separate story.

Shedding and How to Handle It

Some shedding in early wear is normal for a hair fibre. It is not a defect, but it is a customer expectation problem if nobody mentions it.

Put a line about it on the product page and on the hangtag. Retailers who do this see fewer returns than retailers who leave it to be discovered.

Ask the supplier how the yarn has been treated, since finishing affects how much fibre migrates.

Care Labelling

Hair-fibre blends normally need hand washing or dry cleaning. Confirm the method with the supplier for the specific yarn rather than copying a label from another style.

If the rest of your range is machine washable and this style is not, that difference has to be visible at the point of sale.

Checks to Run Before Bulk

Wash test the counter sample under the exact care method you intend to print.

Run a rub test on the surface to see how much fibre releases.

Confirm the content in writing, because hair-fibre percentages are the ones most often rounded up in conversation.

Photograph the approved sample under retail lighting, since halo is what the customer buys.

Where to Apply This

Every style in this catalogue publishes its fibre content, which is the input all of the above depends on. Start from the full catalogue or from a section such as Women's Autumn/Winter Knitwear, then ask for the points the catalogue does not publish.