...- 1 - Executive Summary This article deals with the cashmere industry and the damages for the producer, dealer and customer caused by faked products. In the last years an increase in faked cashmere products was observed caused by increasing demand and stagnating production due to special characteristics in the process of gathering the cashmere wool. The demand side is mainly covered by the textile industry with over 50% share and this industry is affected mostly by the fraud with faked cashmere products. In addition customers are harmed because the pay for a premium products which they do not gain. In the last years two methods have been developed to examine different kind of animal hairs and fibers and to determine their origins. The scanning electron microscopy method allows a highly detailed test of the fibers with a quality analysis as well. However, this test needs highly skilled people and quite a long time and is therefore relatively expensive and not every company can pay for such a test. The DNA analysis on the other hand is easier to handle. It does not take as long as the scanning electron microscopy method and is much cheaper. Otherwise is cannot test the quality of the fibers and thus cannot detect every fake product, e.g. recycled materials. The industry needs a new kind of analysis, which combines the advantages of the DNA analysis on the one hand, and the scanning electron microscopy method on the other hand. Such a test could generate high revenue because the...
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...SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE BORDERS EVALUATION OF CASHMERE MADE IN SCOTLAND PROMOTION 2001-2003 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background In recent years UK manufacturing has suffered the effects of increased global competition from low cost manufacturers in the developing economies. The lower cost of materials, particularly labour, has forced UK manufacturers to maximise efficiency and production techniques to enable them to compete. Partly as a consequence, many manufacturing companies have taken the strategic decision to move to higher quality or specification products, which command a price premium in the market, with a hopeful corresponding impact on margins. The UK Textiles Industry is no exception to this trend and many companies that were unable to diversify, or had niche markets that proved unsustainable, have been taken over or ceased trading with the loss of many job opportunities. The Textiles Industry is important to the Scottish economy. It employs 22,000 people and with an output of £1.2 billion contributes £500 million to the country’s manufactured exports. The Scottish Borders is heavily dependent on this industry and in particular knitwear, which employs around 4,000 people. Recognising the sensitivity of the knitting and weaving sectors to the economy in the Scottish Borders, and following the successful action against the punitive import duties proposed by the USA government arising...
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...Analogy The clear message from the writer here is that caress Cashmere Luxury Body Wash will stimulate your senses. The feel and smell will be luxurious and extraordinary. The analogy is Cashmere Luxury Body Wash compared to being wrapped in a silky soft pashmina surrounded by the blend of white orchid milk and warm vanilla essence. Incidentally, ‘pashmina’ is said to be the finest cashmere wool. It would be difficult to say that this is a strong comparison. Cashmere wool, vanilla and orchid milk are a tough sell when compared to body wash. On the other hand, the comparison does provoke a strong desire to actually be wrapped in pashmina while inhaling the warm essence of vanilla and orchid milk, white orchid milk nonetheless. The smooth supple feel of the body wash could be compared to the feel of cashmere. Textures are easily compared so I could imagine the feeling on the skin may be similar. Fragrances too can be duplicated and used in perfumes, shampoos, and body washes. A direct and believable association can be made there. Vanilla is a somewhat familiar fragrance as it is used in cooking as well. Orchid milk however, is another story. I suppose orchids are popular and may be a recognizable smell. Orchid milk though perhaps not so recognizable. I think perhaps the figure of speech could relate more specifically to cashmere as opposed to pashmina. Cashmere is more recognizable when referring to fine wool. Perhaps the reference to orchid milk is to compare the smooth...
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...Pashmina refers to a type of fine cashmere wool and the textiles made from it and was first invented in India. The name comes from Pashmineh , made from Indian pashm wool. The wool comes from changthangi or Pashmina sheep, which is a special breed of sheep indigenous to high altitudes of the Himalayas in Nepal, Pakistan and Northern India. Pashmina shawls are hand spun, woven and embroidered in Nepal and Kashmir, and made from fine cashmere fiber. The fiber is also known as pashm or pashmina for its use in the handmade shawls of Himalayas. The woolen shawls made in Kashmir find written mention in Afghan texts between 3rd century BC and the 11th century AD. However, the founder of the cashmere wool industry is traditionally held to be the 15th century ruler of Kashmir, Zayn-ul-Abidin, who introduced weavers from Central Asia .Cashmere shawls have been manufactured in Nepal and Kashmir for thousands of years. The test for a quality pashmina is warmth and feel. Pashmina and Cashmere are derived from mountain goats. One distinct difference between Pashmina and Cashmere is the fiber diameter. Pashmina fibers are finer and thinner than cashmere fiber, therefore, it is ideal for making light weight apparel like fine scarves. Today, however, the word pashmina has been used too liberally and many scarves made from natural or synthetic fiber are sold as Pashmina creating confusion in the market. Some people believe Pashmina from Nepal are the best in quality because of the conditions to...
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...more information, please visit DHL’s website at http://www.dhl.com. Note: If requested, the DHL account number is 967244530. IMPORTANT: When the DHL representative takes your package, be sure to give them the three signed commercial invoices and both shipping labels. . Time Piece: C Recipient's Copy Piece 1 of 1 Ref: RT-E4X001011579414-AA Kg Date: 2014-12-03 Content: Italian cashmere cable sweater; 1/1 WAYBILL 17 8581 3816 (2L) US24513+48000001 (J)JD01 4600 0013 9902 1426 *ARCHIVE DOC* Do not attach to package! WPX Origin: BRS Ph:4407754762800 From: jialin luo jialin luo 248 High Kingsdown BRISTOL Avon BS2 8DF GB To: BORDERFREE BORDERFREE 3 Ivy Crescent RT-E4X001011579414-AA Ph:212-299-3555 Lynchburg VA 24513 United States US-GSO-GSO C Account No: Day 967244530 Shipment Weight: Date: Time Pieces: DHL Origin Copy - Do not put in the package 1 DHL standard Terms and Conditions apply.Warsaw convention may also apply. Shipment may be carried via intermediate stopping places DHL deems appropriate. Content: Italian cashmere cable...
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...My first day at Cashmere High My alarm woke me up at 7 am. It was the 1st of February 2009. My body was still damaged from the yet lag of the long flight the day before. It took my eyes a couple of minutes to realize where I was, and what was about to happen the following day. I got out of bed, went into the bathroom to shower up before going upstairs for breakfast with my new Host family. My Host mother had told me the night before she would drop me of at School before going to work. I sad there around the table, wearing a black shirt and a colour full t-shirt and felt how every bite of toast was a effort to press down. I finished of my coffee and went downstairs to back my school bag. Ten minutes later I was there. My host mother left in front of a door saying “Cashmere High head office” I Went inside and turned to the front desk immediately where a woman wearing a blue dress sat. I told her my name, and where I was from. She pointed me through another door going into a bigger hall way. There I found another 10 foreign student nervously standing around. We stood there for a while too shy to start the first conversation, waiting for someone telling us what to do. A short foreign looking lady came in to the room to greet us all welcome. Here name tag said “Mr. yogi, International support coordinator” . She was going to show us around the school for a start. We got handed a map, telling us where all the different classrooms were and how to find our way around. We walked around...
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...Why goats are better than dogs and cats Dogs are regarded as man’s best friend. In the USA alone, there are around 78 million dog owners. There are also over 220 million cats in the world. Whenever you think of a common household pet, you will most likely think of cats or dogs straight away. If you go out for a walk, it is almost guaranteed that you will see a cat or a dog. How many of you own a dog or a cat? Well I am going to convince you why goats are better pets than dogs or cats. Goats are amazing creatures. In many parts of the world they are thought of as livestock or work animals. They are used in third world countries for their meat, fur, milk and to work on the land. The truth is, they are wonderful pets and very loving creatures. There are around 450 million goats in the world and they were the first animal ever to be domesticated by humans. There are many different breeds of goats. All breeds are either dairy or meat goats. Dairy goats are bred for their milk, and meat goats are bred for their meat. Each different breed is extremely different, both in appearance and personality so you have lots to choose from. Dogs and cats are lots of fun but they don’t offer uses in many other ways. Goats can be very useful because they are able to eat the grass on your lawn. This is great for people who are busy because they won’t have to mow their lawn so often. Goats also provide you with fresh milk. Many scientists claim that fresh goat’s milk is great for your health. This...
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...assistant cannot tolerate onions under pregnancy and acquires most of her knowledge about life and what to do, from women’s magazines. I also believe that she has a self-esteem problem in relation to her older sister who “has everything”. The narrator presents herself as a passive woman and is rather insecure about herself. She lets men, unborn or grown-up, control every aspect of her life. And last but not least she has an irregular heartbeat, and a malfunctioning reproductive system. She is fascinated by her boss and maybe as ‘all women’ by his power and high position; “...I do my work on his office computer just to touch the cashmere coat he leaves hanging...” Dr. James Soleander is the archetypical ‘Businessman who cheats on his perfect wife with co-worker’. We know him from novels and TV-shows like “Bridget Jones’sDiary”. He is well-dressed, wears cashmere sweaters and nice shoes, is wealthy, powerful, and in the end not interested in a serious relationship. He is also a married man and a heart doctor. According to our narrator he forgets many things, enjoys onions, as the narrator before her pregnancy, and is attracted to her irregular heartbeat. I perceive him as arrogant, selfish and insensitive because he has a good job and a beautiful wife who cares about him, and on whom he cheats. All through the story the heart plays a huge role. Her irregular heart might symbolize her unstable love life and instability in her life in general. Dr. James Soleander understands the physical...
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...boy because it leaves her after three months and all her guys do that. In the end of the story the narrator has heartburn. She gets it checked by James Soleander but he just laughs at her and says that it has nothing to do with the heart. That is where their relationship and the story end. James Soleander is a heart doctor. He has a beautiful wife who brings him flowers when he is at work. James Soleander loves irregular things. He says that true beauty lies in nature mistakes. When he finds out that the narrator has an irregular heartbeat he starts to get interested in her. He likes to listen to her heartbeat and they have sex in his office. He listens to her heartbeat the whole time while they have sex. James Soleander likes to wear cashmere sweaters and he leaves them in his office. He does not know or he does not care that his assistant likes him a lot....
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...Hamad Alfuways Myself from my closet When Tan glanced the closet she noticed that she has in her own closet several items, such as cashmere sweaters and scarves. In other section there are jackets, black-tie gowns, cocktailparty dresses, business suits, and golfing attire-phalanxes of fashion organized by function, color, and texture. Tan had this interesting observation after attending a benefit luncheon at the home of a venture capitalist. She had experienced a life-changing revelation after stepping into the venture capitalist’s vault-size closet. The interior of the venture capitalist’s closet is luxurious and super organized like the “exhibits at a costume museum” described by Tan. And She made a smug assessment like a psychiatrist that the owner of the vault-size closet is obsessive compulsive sprang to mind and is inflexible to allow any wrinkles in her life. After judging the venture capitalist’s vault-size closet, Tan realized that she could judge her own personality through the picture of her messy closet. For Tan, She could not discard clothes if they were gifts, and the clutter within her closet is found friendship, memories, hard-learned mistakes, future use, and many more excuses. Also she found that as a writer the chaos and confusion could serve her the best. However, Tan’s new housekeeper transformed her closet, and let her see the foibles exposed in her life. She found that she had many useless old clothes and meaningless buys. In reducing the chaos, the...
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...only by the famous international luxury brands such as LouisVuitton, Hermes or BMW. Today, some Chinese brands are trying to conquer a piece of the enormous cake: China will represent 20% (27 billion dollars) of the worldwide luxury market by 2015,. Watches, cosmetics, jewelry, spirits or clothing: here nine brands Qeelin NE Tiger Moutai Shang Xia Longio Hongqi Chow tai fook Herborist Dorian Ho which start to emerge and which hope to regild the image of the “made in China”. The brand Shang Xia was created by the French group Hermes to conquer the Chinese market only. For that, Hermes recruited the designer Jiang Qiong, also chairman of the company whose Hermes owns 90%. With 60% foreign customers with 40% Chinese , Shang Xia as well sells cashmere coats , furniture with zitan (an invaluable wood), or tea sets. After being launched in 2010 in Shanghai, the brand opened in September its second shop in China World, the luxurious Beijing business district. Its turnover would rise to approximately two million euros for 2011. After having started in the sale of fur and leather products in 1992, the brand Tiger (for Northeast Tiger – Tiger of Siberia) turned gradually to the haute couture. Today, its founder Zhang Zhifeng fixed himself for objective to reinvent the Chinese traditional dress. Its styles use ancestral techniques of weaving and silk embroidery. Tiger quickly imposed its « dna » at the fashion shows: the brand for example organized the launch of China International Fashion...
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...At the end of Act 2 Scene 1 Mama told Travis that she bought a house. This causes Walter to become silent and sad. Mama tries to justify what she had done was for the good of the family. It states, “ I just seen my family falling apart today… when it gets like that in life - you just got to something different…” (Hansberry 94). This means, that Mama wanted take initiative to change her family's life for the good. When Walter heard this new he went into a state of isolation. Walter is hurt by this action Mama had done, because it had crushed his dream of running a liquor store. It states, “ So you butcher up a dreams of mine…” (Hansberry 95). This means, Mama didn’t account for Walter’s dream which caused him to become sad. This action shows...
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...milk protein fibers. To make it, milk is first dewatered, i.e. all the water content is taken out from it and then it is skimmed. New bio-engineering technique is then applied to make a protein spinning fluid. This fluid is suitable for wet spinning process through which the final high-grade textile fiber is made. While spinning, a solvent is used by most of the manufacturers and micro-zinc ion is embedded in the fiber which gives it the characteristics of being bacteriostatic and durable. It combines the advantages of both, natural as well as synthetic fibers. Milk protein fiber is a kind of fresh fiber that has very healthy functions. It contains eighteen amino-acids, which are beneficial to human health. It can be spun alone or with cashmere, silk, spun silk, cotton, wool, ramie and other fibers to make fabrics. The fabrics made of these fibers nourish and take care of skin in a very efficient manner by keeping away allergies and even wrinkles. The fabrics made from milk yarn are primarily used in manufacturing kidswear, top-grade underwear, shirts, T shirts, loungewear, etc. Characteristics of Milk Yarn The milk yarn has got many properties that are enough to make it one of the most sought after fabrics of the future. - The natural protein humectant factor is present in the milk fiber, which makes skin more delicate and smooth. As such Fabrics made of milk yarns are suitable for household textiles. - The amino acids...
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...the short History of just an 35 years, the company has emerged as one of the top brand and most recognizable name internationally. This Industry was founded on 1975 by Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti at Italy. You might wonder why Armani is so famous among the youth and even among the shortlisted older generation. Armani is different from that general notion by its price points. Clothing ranges from men’s sweaters to women’s outerwear and ladies’ denim to men’s slacks. Prices follow suit, with just about each item of apparel working its way toward $100. Bigger, more impressive items top off at about $300 for blazers and leather jackets. Not too shabby. And of course, watches and other accessories follow suit, with many sunglasses, cashmere scarves and purses starting at a humble $70. So for a mere fraction of the cost of the parent Armani, consumers can enjoy well-made apparel and a famous brand name....
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