Just in time for the Estes Park Wool Market. Learn a bit more about how soft and warm yak wool is and schedule some time this weekend to come see us at the Estes Park Wool Market. Yak Wool on Hub Pages

Western China’s most abundant resource, the humble yak, are now helping Tibetan nomads.
Farmed in the region for centuries, the yak has been a traditional source of sustenance.
But now, Yaks are also providing luxury fibres and gourmet cheese to some of the world’s leading fashion houses and hotels.
They’re apart of social enterprises – businesses which aim to achieve social, environmental and financial goals.
Check out the link and the video.

Eileen and Carl Koop can’t knit a stitch, but these ex-New Yorkers – he’s a former software engineer, and she’s a chemist — know from yarn. Their Bijou Spun skeins are spun from pure yak down, or yak down mixed with wool, bamboo, nylon or alpaca. Each spring, they painstakingly comb their 15 yaks on Bijou Basin ranch in Elbert County, and send the collected fiber off to be washed, processed and spun. We talked yak recently with Carl.