When the first Cashmere goats arrived at La Pensiola in 1995 it was not immediately clear just how very much there was to learn, to experiment and to invest in creating a finished, hand-made cashmere creation starting with no more than a handful of fluffy fiber hand-combed in the spring.
Trial and error, months spent searching out artisans, down endless country roads, through mazes of hilltop villages, unearthing and discovering not just 'ordinary' people, but ARTISTS weaving and creating wondrous textiles, industrious hand-crafters making one-of-a-kind 'art'.
Over 20 years of passion and creativity have gone by, and one of the real pleasures of what we do is just that: watch a baby goat being born, and follow it all the way through to its first production of Cashmere fiber and on to a handmade finished product - it's pretty damn exciting!
TO SEE WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN STOCK OF OUR SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE YARN, HAND WOVEN SCARVES, SHAWLS AND BLANKETS, AND HAND-KNITTED NEWBORN HATS, SOCKS, BLANKETS AND BOOTIES, please go to our online shop and order there. It's the next best thing to visiting us on our farm in Tuscany:
http://shop.chianticashmere.com/
Trial and error, months spent searching out artisans, down endless country roads, through mazes of hilltop villages, unearthing and discovering not just 'ordinary' people, but ARTISTS weaving and creating wondrous textiles, industrious hand-crafters making one-of-a-kind 'art'.
Over 20 years of passion and creativity have gone by, and one of the real pleasures of what we do is just that: watch a baby goat being born, and follow it all the way through to its first production of Cashmere fiber and on to a handmade finished product - it's pretty damn exciting!
TO SEE WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN STOCK OF OUR SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE YARN, HAND WOVEN SCARVES, SHAWLS AND BLANKETS, AND HAND-KNITTED NEWBORN HATS, SOCKS, BLANKETS AND BOOTIES, please go to our online shop and order there. It's the next best thing to visiting us on our farm in Tuscany:
http://shop.chianticashmere.com/
2016/17 will mark the culmination of several years' work to create a complete line of hand-woven, hand-knitted or hand-sewn accessories and home furnishings ranging from skeins of our own 100% SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE Yarn and patterns to go with them, to hand-knitted scarves, hand-woven shawls, scarves, throws and pillows. We sell ready-made and custom-made to match your decor
We collaborate with several weavers, each with her own loom and personal style; we are currently also working with a number of eclectic hand-knitters and designers so that you can buy either hand-knitted shawls or scarves or else knitting kits of our own 100% SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE yarn, in three tender, undyed, colors
Our creations are all one of a kind, everything is Made in Tuscany, and most interestingly (for us, at least) is that ALL OF THE FIBERS used in our hand-crafted products are NATURAL, RENEWABLE RESOURCES: our own SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE®, 100% Italian Sheep's Wool, Italian Linen and Italian Hemp. Not only do we know all the shepherds and herders and growers who supply us with their fiber, we are careful to document every step of the transformation process so that we can garantee the utmost quality and total traceability of everything we sell
All of our products can be bought in our gift shop here on our farm in Tuscany, or you can order on-line and have us ship to you if you can't make it to visit us this time around! Try taking a look, too at our ADOPT A KID page - this is an entertaining way to give an unusual surprise to someone you care about, and then THEY can choose there own gift! To order click on: http://shop.chianticashmere.com/
We collaborate with several weavers, each with her own loom and personal style; we are currently also working with a number of eclectic hand-knitters and designers so that you can buy either hand-knitted shawls or scarves or else knitting kits of our own 100% SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE yarn, in three tender, undyed, colors
Our creations are all one of a kind, everything is Made in Tuscany, and most interestingly (for us, at least) is that ALL OF THE FIBERS used in our hand-crafted products are NATURAL, RENEWABLE RESOURCES: our own SUSTAINABLE CASHMERE®, 100% Italian Sheep's Wool, Italian Linen and Italian Hemp. Not only do we know all the shepherds and herders and growers who supply us with their fiber, we are careful to document every step of the transformation process so that we can garantee the utmost quality and total traceability of everything we sell
All of our products can be bought in our gift shop here on our farm in Tuscany, or you can order on-line and have us ship to you if you can't make it to visit us this time around! Try taking a look, too at our ADOPT A KID page - this is an entertaining way to give an unusual surprise to someone you care about, and then THEY can choose there own gift! To order click on: http://shop.chianticashmere.com/
