{"id":7349,"date":"2012-12-28T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:20:57","slug":"the-economics-of-cashmere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-cashmere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Cashmere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122812_1246_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"627\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With winter coming to the northern hemisphere, a cashmere sweater is on the wish-list of many. But why is it so expensive? Aisha Harris had the answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cashmere has long been associated with class. Ever since the 1500s Indian Emperors used the material to signify status.<\/li>\n<li>In the present day there is a lot of demand for the material. It is eight times warmer than sheep&#8217;s wool despite its light weight.<\/li>\n<li>However supply is a problem. Cashmere comes from the undercoat of goats specifically bred to produce the wool.<\/li>\n<li>It takes the wool from two goats to produce enough material for a single sweater.<\/li>\n<li>Producing the wool is a costly process. The undercoat needs to be separated from the coarser top coat by hand.<\/li>\n<li>All of this means that only 30,000 pounds of cashmere is produced every year\u2026while 3 billion pounds of sheep&#8217;s wool is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about where the material is produced, when it first appeared in Europe, and where the name &#8216;cashmere&#8217; comes from over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/luxury_explainer\/2012\/12\/cashmere_why_is_it_so_soft_why_is_it_so_expensive.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/luxury_explainer\/2012\/12\/cashmere_why_is_it_so_soft_why_is_it_so_expensive.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With winter coming to the northern hemisphere, a cashmere sweater is on the wish-list of many. But why is it so expensive? Aisha Harris had the answer: Cashmere has long been associated with class. Ever since the 1500s Indian Emperors used the material to signify status. In the present day there is a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122812_1246_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7356,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/7356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}