Mohair

Mohair, the woolly hair of the Angora goat of Asiatic Turkey. Though known since 1655, this product was little used in Western Europe until 1820. The goat has been successfully acclimatised in the dry plateaus of Oregon, California, Cape Colony, and Australia. We import upwards of 20,000,000 pounds of mohair annually, nine-tenths of this amount through Constantinople, and most of the remainder from Cape Colony. The fibre may be four or five inches long, white, lustrous, elastic, and durable, and is used in making plush, Utrecht velvet, imitation fur and ostrich feathers, braids, and boot-laces.