The 79th annual congress of the South African Mohair Growers’ Association, SAMGA, took place on Thursday, 1 June.

Feel the Yarn launched their first ‘Feel the Green’ event during Milan fashion week which was a combination of B2B (spinners meeting their customers), 6 panel discussions, a trend area, and a student fashion installation.

Karen Eybers is a farmer’s wife, a mother, and a teacher at the local school in Rietbron and her story started in August 2021.

It is exciting to see the increase in requests for the SAMGA and MET team to do on farm training with the farmers and the farm workers.

The FTY New York event, offered the ideal platform of us to engage with the brands in a small and beautiful space.

Karoo Angoras & Nelspoort Merino’s proudly presented their 4th annual production sale at Baakensrug, Nelspoort on February 8, 2023.

History was made when four of the oldest Angora studs in the world, Martyrsford Angoras est 1871, Borden Angoras est 1898, Thorn Park Angoras est 1876 and Wheatlands Angoras est 1849, came together at one venue for the first time and offered their top Angora rams.

Traditionally the countries importing the most mohair tops from South Africa are Italy, China, and the UK and 2022 was no different.

The South African mohair industry currently has six buyers purchasing mohair on the 14 official mohair auctions.

We are living in a time where extraordinary things happen, and this is no surprise anymore. On the 18th of January 2023 an extraordinary thing happened at the Willowmore showgrounds, Eastern Cape where the VAN HASSELT Angora ram sale (with guest sellers) took place.

As we know, Italy is a major destination for our mohair tops and while a lot is consumed by the Italian spinners, these yarns are used by many top and medium end brands around the world.

By comparison to the 2021 season, kids were 2% less of the composition of the 2022 clip in 2022.

It is interesting to note that when the mohair market came under pressure, the difference in price between certified mohair and non-certified mohair, increased.

We want to thank all the farmers, farm workers and their families for doing what you do to make the South African mohair industry a world leader in quality and quantity. We wish you all a Blessed Christmas and an ecologically balanced New Year!

Newlands Angoras & Guest Seller - Angora Ram Sale

Auction Report 24 November 2022

This local artist is all about honouring the art of working with mohair. Design is a way to capture stories and memories of places and spaces and recreate these moments into objects.

Gugu Peteni studied fashion and textile design at the Nelson Mandela University (Cum Laude honours, 2017). Post-graduate, she worked as the in-house designer and retail manager for Mohair SA for three years, and in the process started her own fashion brand GUGUBYGUGU.

Last year the mohair, wool and cotton industries were invited to join this project, the great idea of the current Italian Ambassador to SA’s wife. She saw so much talent that she wanted to assist by opening doors to their fashion industry.

Beauty Mokgwamme continues to provide the annual mohair training for Grootfontein College of Agriculture, she loves it and is very grateful that she can still contribute by teaching mohair classing skills to Grootfontein students.

Mohair is benefiting from a range of fashion trends favouring the fibre’s natural and luxurious qualities, as highlighted at the latest textile trade fairs. Read more in the latest edition of Twist Magazine.