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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“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major—perhaps the major—stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
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