Raw Materials
Alpaca, Guanaco, Camelhair, Mohair, Angora, Chinchilla and Mink have all passed through Elgin to be fashioned into variety of luxury fabrics, Johnstons of Elgin introduced Vicuna, the finest, rarest and most exclusive fibre in the world, into Europe and at the great exhibition of London, the company was awarded a medal for its superb Vicuna shawls. Today, Cashmere, the fine undercoat of a breed of mountain goat from China and Mongolia, is the most popular and versatile of the rarer fibres used.
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