I recently visited the factory Scott and Charters located in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, where a lot of our beautiful Cashmere garments are made.  This is a craft with many processes still produced by hand, that I thought I would share them with you, in a short film by Jack Chipperfield, due for completion shortly.  Until then, I took some photographs of a few of the processes to show what is involved in producing some of the finest cashmere garments produced the world over.
1> Cashmere on cones direct from the spinners.

2>The skirts and cuffs are knitted separately and put on to the knitting bar by hand, stitch by stitch.

3>The bars are then loaded onto the knitting machine where the rest of the section is made, ie sleeves, front, back.








4>The finished knitted garment, in its greasy state and before linking

 5>The linking process: the front of the garment is fed onto the linker and then the back is fed on and the two components are linked together.

6> It is then washed or scoured of all the natural oils from the product, this is critical and why no other country can produce the same luxurious quality.  Then the buttons and labels are added, pressed, bagged and sent out to the customer in this case seventeen71company.
Watch this space for the film and share it with your friends  www.seventeen71company.com