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Our Product

Sensationally Soft

and Sustainable

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Our cashmere is harvested from the Changtang Valley where the goats are sustainably raised and produce exceptionally fine cashmere. The center is dedicated to producing the very best handspun cashmere knitting yarn available in limited supply to the tourist industry in Leh and the North American market.​​

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“Cashmere on Ice”
A Contest with Global Impact

Long Thread Media and Wild Fibers are excited to announce, “Cashmere on Ice,” a fiber arts competition that will showcase the best that can happen when fiber artists and exquisite natural fibers from the mountains of the world come together.

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The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. Rapidly melting glaciers endanger not only the environment, but also the indigenous populations who depend on them for their social and economic survival. The nomadic herders in Ladakh, India, along with other communities throughout glacial regions around the world, are feeling the impact of vanishing water supplies that support their crops and fiber-producing animals.

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The Craft Center

Expanding an ancient tradition in the High Himalayas

The Pangong Craft Center is the only cashmere craft center in the High Himalayas dedicated to supporting a semi-nomadic community of 120 families, living  at 14,500'. Beginning with just five spinners in 2013, the center now employs nearly eighty women in the art of spinning and weaving cashmere as an alternative to working on the Indian Army's road crew.

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The Pangong Craft Center is operated by Keep the Fleece (501c3). All donations are tax deductible and will be acknowledged in writing. It is easy to donate using your credit card or Paypal. (Many people have monthly donations automatically set-up with Paypal.) If you would like to send a check, please make it payable to Pangong Craft Center and mail c/o Keep the Fleece, 574 Davis Rd. Union, ME 04862

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