About
Born in Mongolia, where winters are long and cashmere is a way of life.
How we began
Cashmere Paw started with one dog and one bad sweater. Mongolian winters run to −30°C, and the acrylic thing we had bought was pilling within a fortnight while doing very little to keep him warm. Meanwhile the fibre that keeps our own families warm through those winters was being combed a few hundred kilometres away.
It seemed obvious once we said it out loud: make for dogs what we already make for people, to the same standard, from the same fibre.
One fibre, no blends
Everything we sell is 100% Mongolian cashmere. Not a blend, not cashmere-touch, not wool with a percentage of cashmere in it. Cashmere is warmer than sheep's wool at a fraction of the weight, which matters more on a small animal than on a person — a coat heavy enough to change how a dog moves is a coat the dog will fight you over.
Who makes it
The raw fibre is combed by herder families in the Gobi in spring, when the goats shed naturally. It is washed, de-haired and spun in Ulaanbaatar, and knitted by a small workshop there whose people have worked with cashmere for their whole careers. We pay them properly and we buy at a price the herders can live on. That is most of why our pieces cost what they do.
Made to last several dogs
Cashmere rewards care. Hand washed and dried flat, a sweater will outlive a lot of what hangs in your own wardrobe. We would rather sell you one piece that lasts than four that do not — read the FAQ for how to look after it.