Angora wool

Angora is a textile fiber that is obtained from the hair of the Angora rabbit. The Angora rabbit is a long haired rabbit breed. Because of their sweat and heat retaining properties, the Angorafaser is mainly used for bed linen and underwear, tights and ceilings. Although DIN 60001 and ISO 6938 clearly define the hair of the Angora rabbit as Angora, a likelihood of confusion with mohair, wool of the Angora goat. The goat has its name because it occurs from the old name of the Turkish city of Ankara there. The rabbit called Angora, because his hair resembles that of the goat.

Extraction

There are angora rabbit angora wool with different hair structures. In France and in Switzerland Angora rabbit are grown coarser wool structure. The hair of the fur are ready at 4 months and by combing, shearing but also by agonizing " pluck " won alive. These plucked wool is processed into long-haired handmade wool. In Germany, Austria and other countries Angora rabbits are bred, whose coat is a fine wool fleece that is shorn regularly every 2-3 months. The shorn Angora wool processing plants to specialized high quality knitwear. Angora hand knitting wool is offered in Germany by only a few local specialty stores and Internet retailers. To shear the animals either a hand with scissors guard or an electric shearing machine is used in this country. After shearing the animals spend about 48 hours in temperate stables. Then the rabbit has changed and the wool has started to grow again. According to the animal rights organization PETA, just under 90 % of world trade Angora wool from China.

Criticism for animal cruelty

The attitude of the Angora rabbit and the collection of wool has fallen into criticism, including because the wool is pulled to the animals in an article published by PETA video alive. The announcement of this video recordings prompted the textile company H & M and C & A in November, 2013, to take Angora wool from their assortments. The live-plucking and shearing of screaming in pain rabbit was here taken at 9 different Chinese fur farms. In general, the hair of the Angora rabbit are obtained by shearing, which causes the animal under proper implementation no pain and injury.

Others

Pets with particularly long hair, especially in cats, Turkish Angora, and guinea pigs, are also known as Angora breeds.

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