AURA QUE http://auraque.posterous.com MADE ETHICALLY IN NEPAL posterous.com Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:00:00 -0700 Making our AURA QUE summer lightweight Bamboo Cotton Jersey Scarves http://auraque.posterous.com/making-our-aura-que-summer-lightweight-bamboo http://auraque.posterous.com/making-our-aura-que-summer-lightweight-bamboo

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The AURA QUE jersey bamboo cotton scarves are perfect for summer - really light weight and soft! Available in plain neutral colours as well as various striped options.

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These scarves are made on knitting machines in Kathmandu.  The yarn is very fine - 70% Bamboo and 30% Cotton, and knitted on a very fine count to get the summery light feel.  The knitters have to be very careful whilst knitting as the yarn is so delicate until woven up.

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For our striped scarf versions, the making process is extensive, as the yarn has to be knitted up in the raw cream colour, then dyed, then unwound and RE-knitted into the striped versions! So there is definately a lot of work in them!

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At the small factory where these scarves are made, they produce a lot of knitted cashmere products for overseas design houses, all for export.  Each machine is used by a trained Nepalese worker to make sure the hand-operated machines knit evenly and without faults.

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