Angora hair or Angora fibre refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora rabbit. While the names of the source animals are similar, Angora fibre is distinct from mohair, which comes from the Angora goat. Angora fibre is also distinct from cashmere, which comes from the cashmere goat. Angora is known for its softness, thin fibres, and what knitters refer to as a halo (fluffiness). It is also known for its silky texture. It is much warmer and lighter than wool due to the hollow core of the angora fibre. It also gives the wool its characteristic floating feel.
Angora rabbits produce coats in a variety of colours, from white through tan, grey, and brown to black. Good quality Angora fibre is around 12–16 micrometres in diameter, and can cost as much as US$0.35–$0.56 per gram ($10–$16/oz). It felts very easily, even on the animal itself if it is not groomed frequently.
Yarns of 100% angora are typically used as accents. They have the most halo and warmth, but can felt very easily through abrasion and humidity and can be excessively warm in a finished garment. The fibre is normally blended with wool to give the yarn elasticity, as Angora fibre is not naturally elastic. The blend decreases the softness and halo as well as the price of the finished object. Commercial knitting yarns typically use 30–50% angora, in order to produce some halo, warmth, and softness without the side effects of excessive felting.[citation needed]
warmer and lighter than wool due to the hollow core of the angora fibre. It also gives the wool its characteristic floating feel. Angora rabbits produce coats...
rabbit breeds, which is bred for the long fibers of its coat, known as Angorawool. They are gathered by shearing, combing or plucking. Because rabbits...
Also very popular are alpaca fiber and mohair from Angora goats. Unusual fibers such as Angorawool from rabbits and Chiengora from dogs also exist, but...
had seen goats with snow-white "... wool so delicate that one would judge it finer than silk ...".: 296r Angora goats were depicted on the reverse of...
Nevada Angora Fire, a 2007 forest fire near the lakes Angorawool, from an Angora rabbit Angora rabbit, one of at least 11 breeds of rabbit Angora goat...
Progress and Present State of Colonial Sheep & Wools. London: Effingham Wilson. "On the Cashmere-Angora Shawl Goat", in American Journal of Science and...
cotton. Moreover, they communicated their commitment to no longer using angorawool starting from the 2022-23 Autumn/Winter season. In 1999, the New York...
pre-Columbian era. Llamas are social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is soft and contains only a small amount of lanolin. Llamas can learn simple...
Fuzzy Lop is a wool breed and will have wool similar to the Angora breeds although the wool will be shorter than that of a commercial Angora. The American...
country, depending for its prosperity on its grain, wool and the mohair obtained from the Angora goats. An important industry was carpet-weaving at Kırşehir...
marketplace. For the purposes of the act, wool refers to the fiber obtained from sheep or lamb fleece, or Angora or Cashmere goat hair. It may also comprise...
The Angora project or Angora rabbit project was a Nazi SS endeavor in cuniculture during World War II that bred Angora rabbits to provide Angorawool and...
men and for women. The brand uses materials such as denim, jacquard, angorawool, and sueded fleece. In 2018 Teddy Fresh was sold at American clothing...
their use of angora and donated their existing inventory to Syrian refugees. Seventy other retailers had also stopped selling angorawool since the release...
resemble a squirrel fur – typically the blue/grey Siberian squirrel. Angorawool List of types of fur "Ch08". www.fao.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06. "Ch17"...
recent attribution to 'Knitting' is incorrect), the ANG from 'ANGora', and the OL from 'woOL'. Although no Kangol hat has ever actually been manufactured...
collar was lined with soft khaki flannel (or in senior officer's smocks, Angorawool). A "beaver tail" fastened beneath the crotch from the back to the front...
also called "dog wool," is yarn or wool spun from dog hair. The word is a portmanteau of chien (the French word for dog) and angora and was coined by...
and the white AAGBA Angora goat. Pygoras, along with the Angora goat and Cashmere goat, are fiber goats (goats bred for their wool). Pygora goats produce...
crossing the Netherland Dwarf and the French Angora. The result of this cross was a petite rabbit with a wool coat. Early Jersey Woolies still maintained...
cotton-polyester and wool-acrylic fibre blends. Blends of different natural fibres are common too, especially with more expensive fibres such as alpaca, angora and cashmere...
world production estimated at 5 000 tonnes a year Angorawool, the silky white wool of the Angora rabbit is very fine and soft, and used in high quality...
thermonuclear weapon ("hydrogen bomb"). The apparent fetish of Lobo with angorawool is a reflection of Wood's own fetish for the material. This serves as...
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