Why yak hair is taking over our homes and wardrobes
As we sit around our houses staring at the same four walls, we seem to have come to a collective conclusion: short-legged, long-haired ox and even-toed ungulates are
in. One of the less predictable trends emerging in 2021 is our increasing propensity to dress ourselves and our interiors in the understated but highly functional elegance of a Mongolian nomadic herdsmen and his “ger” yurt. Mongolia may be remote but it provides some of the most luxurious fibres in the world, including baby yak and Bactrian camel hair.
Hollywood-born but London-based “social entrepreneur” Nancy Johnston founded Tengri – named after the pantheon of Mongolian sky gods – with a view to utilising these materials o disrupt harmful supply chain models in the luxury goods market.