Ideal Unique Handcrafted special gift for you, your friends and family or a co-worker!!!!
Snuggle up into a soft, ultra warm Yak Wool & Polar Fleece Blend Shawl/Throw on a cold, breezy night/day...these Shawl sized Yak blend shawls are also great for outdoor sports events as a wrap or cushion...
Hand Loomed by Artisans in Nepal
Contemporary Style
Yak Wool & Polar Fleece Blend
Wide Panel Striped Pattern
Shawl Size: L- 71" x W- 31 1/2"
Blue/Black/Purple/Gray/Lt Blue/Burgundy Mix Panel Weave
Hand loomed in Nepal by local Artisans these stylish contemporary solid color wide striped shawls are ...luminosity defined...in the daylight or bright lights the piece is brightly colored and in the dark or shade it has a shadow appearance...the photos can never portray the vividness of the colors...
Yak Wool: The New Cashmere [The Guardian: December 2010]
Yak is an animal that lives high in Himalayan mountains and is accustomed extremely low temperatures. The down layer of wool that is soft and next to the skin is brushed out each spring and is then made into yarn for weaving. It is soft like the high altitude goats that give us cashmere and keeps you very warm. Yaks live at a staggering 13.000 to 16,500 ft. above sea level.
The Yak wool is non-allergenic. There is no lanolin in the fiber; thus making it easy to clean and is hypoallergenic. So anyone that is allergic to sheep wool can wear or cover oneself with a Yak Shawl or Throw. It’s naturally anti-bacterial too, so unlike synthetic garments it will stay odor-free for many days at a time. Unlike sheep's wool, the scales of yak fiber are in a waved mosaic pattern, resulting in a very smooth fiber that does not itch.
This piece appears to be a predominate blend of Yak Wool together with Polar Fleece. We are uncertain at this time as to the percentages of Yak wool to the other material blends. Polar Fleece adds to the beauty, strength, softness and durability of the shawl while the Yak wool adds to its ultra warmth and softness.
Photos are an estimate of the actual colors and are not exactly like shown: the shawl color is predominately a Blue/Black/Purple/Gray/Lt Blue/Burgundy Mixed Weave blend in a striped panel pattern [these colors are difficult to describe and we are presenting them to assist you in the photo view], depending on the lighting and the quality of your computer monitor. The luminosity color of the close-up photos is due to the natural sunlight lighting. The colors are actually far more vivid and deeper than the photos.
Additional Information: The descriptions we use for our merchandise are based on our supplier’s representations to us. We do not always manufacture our own materials or merchandise so we must rely on what we are told by our suppliers; who in turn relies on the weavers; who in turn relies on the yarn merchants, etc. Unless a seller makes their own yarn and manufactures their own merchandise in their shop, the seller is unaware of what materials are actually included in the yarn used to weave the shawls that we make our clothing from. When a supplier advises us that he knows or believes that the yarn is a mixed blend, we note so in our descriptions. If our supplier advises that the yarn mixture is predominately Yak or Sheep wool, then the merchandise is described as Yak Wool or Sheep Wool or some combination of both. If the supplier informs us that they believe the merchandise is a blend of Viscose or Polar Fleece, we note that it is a blend of these materials plus the Yak and Sheep wool in our descriptions. We are unable to determine the actual % relationship of materials that maybe included in our merchandise without a costly lab test, which would have to be added to the price of our merchandise and make selling it prohibitive. We do not note anywhere in our product descriptions that an item is “100%” or “Pure” unless we have a strong assurance that it is possibly a true statement. If you require any additional information about the material content on the items we sell please send us a message.