How The World's Most Expensive Fibers Are Made | Insider Art
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- Communities around the world rely on harvesting some of the rarest known fibers to make a living. But for most, it's not an easy task. Fragile fibers like lotus silk and vicuña wool are so rare that they can cost more than gold. Here's how some of the world's most expensive fabrics - like French Leavers lace, Icelandic eiderdown, and cashmere from Himalayan goats - are made.
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Idk why but when I see the animals run I think “bruh the humans are trying to get our hair again ruuuuuun”
The ducks: “who tf took my nest”
Funny, I think the same thing when I see posts like this.
“Why they tryna steal my wig? That cost me 1 year of growing to make this wig! Eh, I’ll replace it soon”
At least for the vicuña wool it’s good for them to be sheared every so often
@@whyareyoulookingatthislol Any wool giving animal was literally created to make wool 🦙🦙🦙
Imagine being a duck doing duck things and you go home to find your house being snatched.
What I dont understand, I mean its cold there. And it looks like there are eggs in the nest. So, if humans are running around stealing the insulating nest material - how many of those eggs dont hatch because they got too cold? The ducks are protected, but I guess they dgaf if the eggs die from cold.
@@childofcascadiathey replace it with another insulating material.
4:21 why not just wait until the eggs 🐣😢
My thoughts exactly 😪😪
Cuz 💰😣
In the Philippines, we have local fibers like Pinya (Pineapple) Fibers, Abaca (Manila Hemp) Fibers and Coco (Coconut husk) Fibers, and more, that are used as textile for weaving particularly some of our indigenous and traditional clothes and designs.
I am from PH also! Yes I can confirm and it's pretty nice actually.
I’ve been wanting to buy the pineapple shirt. Or a silk sarong from Cambodia.
I've always wanted to try these on, especially pineapple!
I was born and raised in PH, but moved to the US. I do remember pinya fibers, but not the other two. But that's interesting though.
For some reason even though I don’t know what these are, I want to wear all these fabrics-
Imagine you are a duck, leaving your nest for just two minutes and after coming back the nest has shrunk to nearly nothing. How mean is that please? At least give the poor mama duck a proper replacement.
Mama duck is able to replace it by herself
Down is easily made
@@Alucard-gt1zf I'll hope so.
@@Alucard-gt1zf That's the mentality of all unscrupulous thieves ^^
@@Alucard-gt1zf Let me break your house and i assume you can make it again.
Yeah, leave animals in peace! 😓
I hope that craft like this can be preserved for generations to come, it would truly be a loss for humanity as a whole if we lost this. I'll never be able to see, feel or even buy anything like this, but this is art. Art should be preserved.
It probably won’t be preserved lol let’s be real here
@@liamcorder3812 what are you talking about? so long as there is a market for it, it will be preserved, and there is still a huge market for it
@@lostpockets2227 they're expensive as hell, require a LOT of work and have limited amount of the fiber + more and more brends go cruelty free. they have already replaced fur, so wool may soon(and by that i mean like ~1-2c.) be replaced with synthetic too. this really doesn't have anything to do with a huge market.
all of them are dying. i believe that french lace stuff is running out of the working machines and they can't make more since nowadays it's too expensive to build a new one.
@@ego_peyseyshestvo you can get cruelty free wool, and as for fur - synthetic is a bunch of microplastics disguising itself as environmentally friendly.
@@liamcorder3812 what a sad cynical attitude to have. PLENTY of very old craft traditions still survive to this day all over the world, in many different forms. You have the attitude like nothing ever gets preserved, and the mere notion is laughable, but that is FAR from the truth, I think you need to educate yourself a little.
What i love most about this is that the lady collecting the Eider feathers left a little bit behind for the eggs, and how cool these crafts are i mean could you imagine being one or ten people who can make a special fiber? It’s an art style and it’s really interesting.
Edit: Hello greatest people, before you make a reply to tell me of my wrongs research. Study this manner as i have argued until i could no more. Im done correcting those who think i made a poor observation. Once you know all the information behind the subject then i wont have to argue my case. Thank you!
also when you pick cherries or berries is good to leave some for the birds and wildlife. Don't pick the whole tree, they also have to eat :)
@@nistorad4668 yup another great thing to do
Yeah she left a measly ball of fur for the poor birds.
How is that interesting??
@@Applejuice646 well it’s something to protect the eggs, its the thought that counts. And it’s interesting to me because almost all human kindness is gone and you have shown a nice example, but anyway, its the thought that counts.
@@I.am.better.than.you. ur right, but in this case only having the thought could freeze the eggs to death
"Due to conservation efforts, they cannot be domesticated."
But... isn't that historically the best way to ensure the survival of a species?
Depends. You got cases like Quail that can't hatch their own eggs in captivity. They have lost their ability to do it, in most rearing facilities. They've been so domesticated that Farmers themselves have to hatch the eggs.
Yeah people talk about there being large group of humans. But cows and chickens out number people 10:1 if not more. Then there’s cats dogs pigs sheep lambs horses buffalo just to name a few and some of these animals get pretty good deals. Some don’t but it’s interesting how natural selection works it’s way out.
Yes but no... You see animals trusting humans are way easier to hunt and trust me they are being hunted by assholes a lot... We had a plant on this planet that was the most potent antibaby ever... We f*cking used it all up during the reign of julius cesar... They grew that plant everywhere and still completely wiped it out...
It might be the conservation of the ecosystem rather than that single species itself.
Some animals are known as "a keystone species" in conservation, meaning that removing them from the ecosystem (or even creating severe competition for resources via domesticating a portion of their species) will cause wholesale collapse.
Think of what would happen if we domesticated deer in the Northwest of the U.S.?
1. Fields would be made for their grazing that would encroach upon the already-thinning territory for deer.
2. Chronic Wasting Disease would be very easily spread at/between domestication sites and then transfer to the wild population.
3. After 1 and 2 diminish the wild population, natural predators such as wolves would be out of a major food source, and as their second option is either small game or (in overlapping habitats) moose? Packs wouldn't recover after the first harsh winter. It would be devastating to their gene pool.
4. Wolves are gone.... Now what is left to control the small game and moose? Especially when a significant natural competition, deer, has been drastically reduced in number due to resource loss, disease, and over-hunting by the starving apex predators? People with a hunting licence?
Not effectively enough, especially since it's not year round and hunters don't usually pick off the scrawny/sick. Their populations would bloom, their gene pools would shift for the worse, they'd consume vegetation unchecked - putting botanical species at risk of extinction (which has happened before), AND we'd have more and more people getting in traffic accidents because they hit a moose. Not to mention the property damage that many small game species can cause.
I don't know what role those little guys play in their own ecosystem, but it could be absolutely vital, even if they themselves might benefit from domestication.
The domestication of a species is different to their capvitiy. Domestication changes their genetic makeup which can, in turn, affect other phenotypes (due to pleitropy: see 1959 experiment with domesticated foxes).
What about taking a small portion of the existing population to domesticate rather than all of them? Well if the population is already very small, let's say 100 individuals and you take 30 for domestication. Then you are creating a bottle neck event. This reduced the genetic diversity within a population even more so than their already dwindling numbers. With the loss of genetic diversity (as seen in cheetah populations) the individuals become more and more alike. If a disease were to wipe through the population there is not enough genetic diversity to adapt, as in: if all indivuals have similar genes then they will all react the same way to an event like disease and therefore could become extinct. This would affect both the domesticated and wild populations.
There is also an affect called an Allee effect in which if you have a small population already it does not bounce back and enters an Extinction Vortex in which is cannot recover. Therefore taking some or all of the population to domesticate could mean the wild population enters this Vortex.
Hope that helps :)
I hope the people who do the hard work get proper payment, support and recognition
We don't , even us small time workers . And asked or threatened into giving up our stuff for alot less or free .
Unfortunately It's "just a living" for the small town workers.
Narrator: in fact, they don't.
For what? It's all pointless vanity to own the items made from their produce.
Slave labor basically. Compared to what we would consider livable wages
Some of these fabrics I've never heard of and would love to feel them.
Would be cool to have a fabric library. I don’t know how it would be maintained, though. I’m not an expert. I imagine you’d have to go through hand washing procedures between handling each fabric. And they would be sterilized regularly.
ive had the pleasure of knitting with vicuna wool and its so so so incredibly soft and bouncy
Can anyone tell me her company name 4:09 .
I want to trend it on twitter.
Prashant Bharti r u about to cancel her or something?
Dominion (2018) 🔥🔥
Eider feathers are collected in the Vega archipelago in Norway, not Iceland. It's a really nice Tradition because the people prepare nests for the birds which leave the feathers after they're done with raising their young. So it's a symbiosis.
I think that‘s called farming
Symbiosis means the birds are getting something beneficial out of it, which they are not.
@@NextToToddliness they prepare great nests for the birds and check if theyve left to collect the feathers
birds get a pre made nest locations which are usually safer and better positioned then what they can find naturally
humans get feathers it makes sense to make safer locations and you know where they are instead of looking for the nests
thats symbiosis they both win
No, a large amount of eiderdown comes from Iceland. I have family there that collect it.
@@kellynolen498 i like how you just decide what’s “better and safer” for the birds. Symbiosis means the birds benefit from their nests got taken away, which they do not. It’s called stolen. Also human being need to cut the crap out of making bs excuses to justify their greedy behaviors. It’s called hypocrisy.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, the third, the Eiderdown feathers, bro they are just yeeting their nests and leave the eggs with either a miniscule amount of the original nest, or just in the ground altogether, that's peak human behavior if you ask me....
You're an idiot. Birds leave a lot of feathers and keep doing so in excess. Forages leave enough to keep eggs together and warm, mother will drop more feathers later.
@@Krasov92 theres so many feathers a pair of birds can make before getting cold and not being able to fly, I don't doubt those bird parents will die for their children, but yeah, my point stands, also, don't get emotional, it's just a comment on YT, no need to be rude
@@rodrigosanay4351 These are not the feathers that let bird fly, these are feathers that are grown to be shed, like wool on a sheep.
@@Krasov92 yeah but eventually, if these dudes come and take the feathers, from where do you think are going to get more? They won't wait until they can shed more, they'll use what they have in hand, and the problem is that they aren't dealing with only humans, other birds will steal feather too, the wind might get them off the next, other animals, etc, etc
@@rodrigosanay4351 I really despise idiots who watched one too many emotional documentaries about poaching and now think of themselves as enlightened know it all about wild life.
Now, take your pen, and make notes on why you are an idiot.
1. It was explained in the video the birds shed down continously, not once or on a whim, it falls off on its own.
2. They nest at distant inhospitable locations, far from predators.
3. The down is to mark and to provide insulation, and there is excess of it.
4. Foragers take the excess, and put the nest back together.
You deliberately had chosen to ignore all this information showed to your face to play righteous nature defender.
We have several eiderdown quilts on our family cabin which was built in 49' in Norway. After 70 years of use, they are by far the best quilts I've ever experienced.
rich
Wasn't that rare or expensive back in the day.@@SGames69
Shameful
We'll done. My heart goes out to those Eirder eggs. As for the lace process, it is very beautiful & facinating. The time frame will double if you have to make a new punch card. As industry professionals I respect each process.
imagine coming back to your nest only to find that it was stolen
The Vunca Wool set up is really considerate of the animals health. Thats nice to see
Angora wool is supposed to be pricey. I personally would like an Angora rabbit because 1) it seems nice to be required to pet and comb a super soft animal every day, 2) I think it would be fun to try my hand at very small scale textile making, 3)They don't take a ridiculous amount of land to raise, and 4) I've never had any sort of livestock before, and this seems like decent starting livestock.
I would prefer if you it the way you want to do it than they way it is done in many awful places, undercover investigations exposed mad abuse of the rabbits. So, yeah, if you r gonna be gentle, that would be great.
Make chiengora instead. It's as soft and fine as cashmere and said to be 80% warmer than wool. What is it? Yarn made from dog hair. Specifically, only the softest hair from the undercoat of a dog. As long as it is at least 1.5" in length you can make chiengora.
They are a great starting point in the textile world! In addition, they make the sweetest pets! ❤
We should shave our dogs to make wigs for underprivileged, bipoc cancer patients of color with a preference for LGBTQIRS birthing persons.
They’re the sweetest little angels, my mom is a fiber artist so she knows a lot of people who sell different kinds of wool. So as a kid when my mom would go to fiber festivals my favorite part was always playing with her friends bunnies. They were the sweetest little nuggets and they loved to cuddle, the woman who had them treated them like her children and pampered them.
in my opinion, number 3 is exploitation. they took more then half feathers from the nest.
Yeah I was stuck on this one. The rest seem just fine, but they stole like 3 quarters of those nests that were supposed to keep the eggs and momma warm. Kinda fucked to not replace it with something, like give them cotton back in return or *something*
@@Clonephaze2327 exactly. How do you expect to get more feathers if you dont even make sure the future generations of ducks are kept warm when you take basically all of their nest material. Atleast put cotton or something in there so that it replaces the feathers, like you said.
Dominion (2018) 🔥🔥
I was worrying about this too, I looked it up and apparently it’s supposed to be harvested only after the eggs have hatched and the nest is abandoned. So why was it being collected in the video while the eggs are still there?
@@axuwu6939 maybe the nests were abandoned or they couldnt find any nests that they were desperate to take anything.
I looked it up and you are not supposed to harvest down from nests WITH EGGS STILL IN THEM. This was so insane to watch. Like watching number 3 and knowing that couldn’t be right. Insider needs to do more research they’re like the buzzfeed of TH-cam now
Yeah I thought that they will ensure the rarity of the species by leaving the eggs to freeze and spreading human scent so that the mother will abandon them.
@@djja8844 Human scent doesn't cause birds to abandon young. That was a lie told to kids to keep them from messing with nests.
@@forgenorman3025 not only is what you say a lie, but you've now been debunked by me calling it a lie, and you clearly knew it was a lie when you typed it. Further, we don't have time to investigate whether it's a lie, we won't let you do a standard investigation for this type of lie, and don't you dare investigate whether it's a lie or we'll indict you for lying. Keep it up and we'll add an extra indictment for election interference for repeating your previously debunked lies. -Agent Smith (partisan prosecutor, known hypocritical liar, and all around POS)
I didn't like the part when the lady gets mostly all the nest wool off those eggs. Very sad to watch, if she is doing that, she should take less than half. The eggs will soon hatch with so warmth. Thanks lady for leaving us in the cold.
😂😂 you looked it up and it’s illegal? Then how is there an entire mainstream industry?
3:49 robbing the cradle in the sense they’re literally just stealing it from underneath the baby 😭
the vicunya thing is so wild lmao imagine you and everyone you know being captured and shaved bald once every two years and you don't know why
That's good the lady actually left some feathers for the eggs. Which makes sense you don't want to duck population to drop. It'll means less nest to raid
In India , we have this rare type of cloth that used to be handwoven by using thumbs only , it was so thin and light that a scarf made of it could be folded down to the size of a matchbox ....
The art of manufacturing it was dying till a few entrepreneurs in our country revived it .
What's even worse is the way that the art was dying .
It was very famous back in 1500s but invaders chopped off the thumbs of the artists who made them
( we were told British , because they wanted their machine textile industry to progress more)
What is it called? My mother had one cloth and it was the finest thing ever; colored a deep indigo, but still translucent because it was so thin. She said it was from India. I remember tossing it into the air as a kid, watching it slowly fall down. I never saw anything like that since.
What is it
Dhaka muslin.
Conservation efforts aren't why vicunas can't be domesticated (at least not easily). The reason is that they starve themselves in captivity.
So... Conservation efforts. If they didn't starve in captivity, conservationists wouldn't be against breeding for the industry.
Thanks for adding this!
When I heard that in the video I thought "but wouldn't domesticating them end in their numbers growing?" and was a bit confused
@@danielaabadia7490 Not really. If they kill themselves when you capture them and try to keep them, systematic breeding would probably not even be feasible, much less profitable. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the conservationists that they can't really be domesticated.
@@danielaabadia7490 this made vicunas hard to breed , they need to be free.
Alpacas are domesticaed vicunas.
Taking the eiderdown will have bad downstream effects. Soon those birds will evolve to produce less down as their eggs and hatchlings are probably affected by humans stealing the warmth provided by the down.
Exactly
Dominion (2018) 🔥🔥
2:57 - The lotus plants are ONLY available to be harvest between April and Oct. Means most of the time in the year :) but lets make it sound crazily seldom.
*between April and October only
Not "only available."
Half the year, not most of the year.
@@magtovi but 7 months is most of the year
@@eco_2128
Depending on the defenition.
In an election 60% would be most.
But it's not right saying 6 or 7 months is "most" of the year. It's half or too near half.
@@petrac2840 Someone that can think before talking! Rare sight
Do the eggs die since they don't have the down keeping them warm?
That was what I was thinking! I saw that she put them back but I'm still concerned. I have to remind myself that they don't want to kill the next generation becuase then there won't be any ducks left to make the nests so hopefully the ducks make a larger nest that what is actually needed.
I was wondering the same, if it disturbs the nests to the point the eggs are harmed.
I think that's why the harvesters made a point of leaving some down at each of the eider nests.
The eider ducks replace the missing eiderdown when they return. Typically, only ⅔ or so is removed.
Rest assured: Icelanders have espoused an environmental conscience long before the advent of Rachel Carson or David Suzuki
@@19gregske55 Why don't they take all the down and replace with duck or goose down for a bigger harvest and big warm nest? That 1/3 down left if taken would make for 50% more harvest.
with the vucna wool, I love the fact that they don't poach them, although it would be incredibly easier, they also do health checkups on them! Really goes to show how respectful to nature humans can be.
Nature is so beautiful and vivid.
There is so much hard work and patience behind expensive clothes!!
PLEASE, make more of this style of video.🤞
This video has an excellent script, narration & content overall. (No denim pun intended... well maybe just a little?)💕💕
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Dominion (2018) 🔥🔥
I thought this was a new video :(
For me it was...
Ageless topic
same
it is though
@@apersoniguess_ no shit Sherlock
If I'm rich, I really want to spend on that Lotus silk. That silk looks so curious and beautiful.
After watching this video and learning about how expensive cashmere sweaters are. That cashmerus appearus spell from wizards of waverly place looking really nice right now 😚
In the shop I work at we sell cashmere shawls. They're so incredibly soft... And so incredibly expensive. They're plain colored and they still sell at double the price as hand colored and patterned wool or wool-silk mix shawls. That's why we only have about two at at a time, not many people can or would spend hundreds of dollars for a shawl.
the vicunas must be like "oh it looks like it's time for our bi-annual family reunion/haircut again"
Vicuñas*
Thanks❤ to all the makers out there😊🎉
Someone gave me a purple Casimir sweater
I loved it so much and wore it until it was totally worn out
I definitely wish I could afford to buy a new one
It’s worth every penny
I just don’t have any money for clothes
A lot of talent and patience goes into making so many things
Was in Myanmar years ago and saw lotus silk being made and had chance to buy. I couldn’t afford them as travelling on budget but should have if I’d known how rare it is.
I was really hoping to hear something about byssus silk (fibers made by several kinds of mollusc).
Try another video.
So ducks nests are basically being destroyed. Amazing.
Imagine coming home and someone stole your bed and blankets, but left you a pillow 😒
Lol
Here I don't even eat drive thru food due to the extra cost. I can't imagine paying 2k for jeans because the dye... People will buy anything.
Dominion (2018) 🔥🔥
Some RICH people will buy anything expensive to show off how rich they were before they bought it.
i own a goat that is partially angora (a breed of goat similar to cashmere, but angoras produce mohair no cashmere) and oh my gosh, the mohair from him is SO soft and i'm not sure he's ever been cold in his life! my dairy buck will be shivering while he's laying down on the wet ground looking at the other like "what's the problem??" 😂 fiber goats are awesome
I have a cashmere jumper and some cashmere gloves. They’re incredibly soft and very warm. Both I got second hand for less than £5! (I worked at a charity shop and had a discount on first come products)
I didn’t wake up thinking that seeing a herd of Vicuña be released back into the wild was what I needed but damn it…I did. I’ve watched that part like 10 times. Vicuña said “PEACE’😂
Everything was so amazing, then there denim, sounds like...
"Everyone has a plumbus in their home. First, they take the dinglebop, and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches. They take the dinglebop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It’s important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a schlami shows up, and he rubs it and spits on it. They cut the fleeb. There’s several hizzards in the way. The blamfs rub against the chumbles. And the ploobis and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old plumbus."
Lol rick and morty
This was a very interesting video! These natural fabrics are truly AMAZING 🥰
Dominion (2018) 🔥🔥
I want to say the weaver lace, my grandma makes some with sowing thread by hand and it is so amazing.
Wow this is amazing how they make these textiles especially the llama wool from the mountains
I’m sure those eggs will be fine on the cold hard ground
I feel bad for the eggs cause essentially they're just ruining their nests
Fascinating. Thank you.
Vicuñas are so cute! 🦙
Number 3 is a disgrace. The parent birds worked so hard to make a warm nest and now the chicks will be far more likely to die without the warmth
No they won’t 🤦♂️ The warmth comes from the parent birds and they leave enough to insulate the eggs.
Всё это тяжелый и кропотливый труд. Уважение людям труда. All this is hard and painstaking work. Respect for people of work.
Она пиздит утепление гнезда у утки. В чем этот труд тяжкий?
@@HEKPOMAHT1991 искать гнездо этих птиц дело трудное
@@eli-eastwood3548 причем здесь трудно, это воровство. Она ворует у утки гнездо, которая мучалась в его сооружении, дабы сохранить тепло и вывести потомство. Это тоже самое если она к вам придет и будет собирать ваш урожай для продажи, а ваши дети будут голодать. Таких людей надо наказывать сроком, может потом что то в голове отложется
Love this , very informative
Very informative. Thank you.
She basically tool the whole nest wtf. The eggs will probably not stay as warm now smh.
Welcome back guys to another and new exciting video
After watching this, i appreciate my cloths/fabric more.
very well explained, convincing voice, thank you
Facinating!
Try Felb, the smooth combed fabric coating our old top hats. The looms that made it has all been destroyed or scrapped. it cant be made anymore, at all.
The duck comes back and is thinking, “WTF happened to my nest.”
Okay but those first animals are so cute I love it
Lotus silk seems to go against the patience of the people harvesting
Won't taking the feathers from the nest hurt the eggs ?
amazing video, thanks for this huge effort
A teacher of mine let his class touch a handful of Eider feathers, and dude, it's sooo soft and warm!
It's kind of odd that you never hear any stories about people making new parts for French Weaver lace machines or at the very least trying to reverse engineer entire machines I mean come we live in the year 2022 and this is too much for us
It’s crazy how well they explain why these animals’ fur is so thick and then continue to steal it….
I am astounded by the amount of animal species there are that I still have yet to discover. It seems like there can't be anymore - but I continue to learn about a new on almost every week or 2.
I have some cashmere stuffs and they are great in the winter.
i have a 100% cashmere sweater that was my grandfathers, didn't know it was worth that much, wow.
cant believe they forgot about Bisso.
Only made in sardinia with barely enough artisans to be counted on one's fingers, the fiber itself extracted from one mollusk which takes decades to grow into adulthood. it is so rare that it is said that the best way to get a single fiber of it is to befriend one of the artisans, as each fragment is closer to a relic than a commercial product.
Maybe not forgot but didn’t have enough info. Or if they did forget or didn’t know, if they read your comment then they can maybe make it into a next video. There’s SO many fibres out there.
Byssus silk!
Good to know. With the Hope do it better than now in the future keeping and protecting 100% the fountain and source in the nature and be affordable and "bien remunerado" to the countries and people who work that. And "costoefectivo".
Thanks 😊 for share
I own a cashmere sweater that I found very cheap at the thrift store. It is my favorite sweater to wear in winter, because it is soft, warmer than anything else I own, and still very breathable. I want to buy more, but they’re so expensive, and I doubt I’ll ever find another at the thrift store😢.
That's kinda fucked that they just take their nests with the eggs in them still
Lol
What's so great about the french leavers lace? I get that it's expensive due to rarity. But is there anything beyond the name that makes it special?
Probably just the fact, nobody else in the world have the machinery left to do it.
I assume it will.also made from nome kind of natural thread. Not the polyester
It's just superior to other laces
I saw a video on nano-tube fiber spinning. That is one to add to your list, perhaps.
You can buy muskoxen wool, which is collected as it's shed by wild muskoxen. It's apparently extremely warm!
Fun fact: denim jeans have metal mixed into the fibers. This is why they aren't "soft" denim in America is different because we have some of the most poisonous snakes, spiders, reptiles in the world. Farmers got the denim pants in order to prevent being bitten. They are meant to be harder, stiffer and real denim jeans aren't cheap. Most real denim cost 50 and above.
I really enjoyed learning this …I am intent on saving when I can and buying quality garments to support those who work to produce them and to have beautiful long lasting items…the cashmere makes me think of Prince’s song “Pink Cashmere “…
I hope the artisans and workers are able to make a comfortable living. I can’t tell quality of life from the video. I don’t know enough.
Thanks for share 🙏
This is wonderful.
Idnyou are not a duck or an alpaca
The part about jeans being softer because theyre woven by hand seems like a claim the manufacturer wants you to believe to increase the value of the product. Maybe most mass produced jeans are made using cheaper materials?
wish there was a video game where to make the best armor you have to go island to island searching for nests, heard rare animals in mountains, go to cities that have the only remaining tool to craft.
Assasins creed 4, Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, etc
Freshly peeled! 😊❤
Those lace weaving machines are the world’s oldest programmable computers.
Literally the same as every explanation: we have way better and more economical options so these are now just little niche things to flaunt wealth
Except for the lotus silk. If you hear the origin around it, it’s a pretty brilliant item I hope to get one day.
Exactly, so many people are going "quaint traditional crafts are lovely" without thinking about the vast inequality between the poor skilled craftman and the rich idiots buying the stuff.
I never heard of this gorgeous animal in Bolivia. How do you spell it?
Vicuña
They are so cute!
Gorgeous, cute animal exploited for its fur. It's fur was given to it for itself, not for greedy humans!!! Look how terrified they are when their life is intruded upon by greedy humans. Why don't these humans go find a life elsewhere or do something else?! The only thing wrong with this planet is that selfish, greedy humans exist.
@@ND-jl9jq so you're into genocide I see. These people would've died if they didn't gather this fiber. It's a traditional fiber, they needed it to survive, and they probably still do
@@ND-jl9jq maybe they could leave the wool, but the animals are also given a veterinary check-up, which is good for the health of the individual,and the species. Since they're said to be protected, these checkups probably have a large part in keeping these animals around.
❤ one of my favorite videos
Interesting, thanks
Wow ...maybe they should leave some down for the eggs to stay warm. How absolutely horrible that they just walk around and take all but a pinch or two of the down from the nest. I bet they consider themselves to be real heroes
I was thinking the same
Poor eggs
They probably only take what is reasonable. It would not be in their interest to endanger the population that provides their down.
Let's assume that yes, eggs die from cold after a part of the nest is removed (they are not, the ducks are strictly protected as was said in the video, but let's pretend that they suffer).
And your only action is to comment under a video? I bet you consider youself to be a real hero
You can clearly see that they do infact leave some down
Dumass
What a cruel action to distroy the duck nest ? Human's deeds are foolish
The video: "ducks are strictly protected"
You: did not watch the video
i wonder how much the people who ACTUALLY do the hard work sees from the high prices of these fiber
Wow amazing information
I would love to have a clothing line. I would have a distinct style that is a mix of classic English country side and modern Italian tailoring with exotic inspirations from random places all over. Lots of texture. Lots of beautiful patterns. I would want to have the high end versions of these garments exclusively made out of materials like vicuña, sea island and Giza cotton, high end wools like gift of kings or 12milmil12, lotus flower silk, sea silk, and eiderdown. As well as exotic leathers and precious metals/stones. These would be for the richest people on earth. Costing literally tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. But if you aren’t a multi billionaire, and only a millionaire but like the style, you can go one tier down and get the same designs made out of cashmere, camel, the same sea island but no Giza, normal high quality wool, standard down filling, and normal high quality leathers like calf skin, pig skin, lamb skin, and goat. These items would be the same prices as your standard high end fashion. 300-6000 dollars. But then you’d have the standard line using cheaper but still good quality cottons and wools, cheaper leathers, and cheaper construction while still being great. Same designs but at a reasonable price for normal people. Ralph Lauren, banana republic, jcrew price ranges. 10-300 bucks.
Imagine being fresh out of school in your career. You find a few styles you really like. As you advance through your career you still like these designs but you have more money to spend. You can get the nicer version. Or you can be someone like Donald trump, Elon musk, or Kanye with billions of dollars wearing the highest end versions, only to find that your stupidity causes you to lose massive amounts of money, forcing you to buy the cheaper versions of the clothes to keep up appearances. No one will ever know. Lol
Pretty cool idea
Some of these things are only expensive because of the processing. Like the lotus silk isn’t the best or anything just hard to make which seems less valuable then something that’s rare or the best at what it does🤷🏽♂️
I love how the European fabrics which have less process involved is more expensive compared to the other ones
6:16 my grandma has this item at home yet now I know it's expansive