I'm glad that you addressed this, I saw their post on reddit and thought they were so shady, but I think that's also because of the way it's translated too. There's no reason to be secretive if they're doing things with integrity
Most people don’t understand what goes into making a sweater. Almost all knitters and artists have had a bad experience selling their work or worse making a commissioned piece. Often the commissioned work doesn’t satisfy the customer for some reason. That’s demoralizing. I’m criticized for selling my work too cheaply just to satisfy my knitting habit. It’s not fair to knitters who are trying to make money, but that’s not possible anyway unless you’re a designer.
I've just taken a look at their Instagram as I hadn't heard of this brand before. They're keeping their cards very close to their chests aren't they! I don't blame any self respecting knitter to question the motives behind this project.
From what I can tell Cardiff cashmere don't seem to sell finished handknits, just yarn. I know they do a lot of collaborators with designers but the exact nature of their agreements isn't something I know too much about. Collaboration with a few sample knitters for displays and shows is rather common but not for commercial production.
Cardiff cashmere sells underweight skeins. I've only bought one skein from them though, it weighed in as 23g and the label says 25g. I emailed Cardiff cashmere to address the issue and they replied back with a long list of reasons why underweight skeins are possible, not giving a plan going forward to fix the issue at all and prevent future underweight product.
@@nata6025I don’t work in the industry, and I live in Australia, so I don’t have an investment in your views on Cardiff Cashmere. However, I understand from a local to me producer, that the weight of a skein/ball can vary significantly due to factors such as humidity, and that an allowance of +/- 10% is acceptable (and normal) in yarn weights. HTH
@@nata6025 so you concluded from one single skein that ALL their skeins are "underweight"? Manufacturing differences can occur, it happens literally in every product. I would get if you had gotten a bunch of skeins and all were underweight - then you'd have an average lack of product and it would be fair to say they do sell less than promised. With one skein thats a bit funny to presume, it could very well be a singular outlier. Time to measure to meterage.
