Camel hair, cashmere and alpaca.
Three animals, three extreme landscapes, one answer to the cold. Every Murmells coat begins with the choice of its fibre. It is the fibre that decides the handle, the weight, the drape, and how the coat will wear the years.
Camel hair
BACTRIAN CAMEL · GOBI DESERT
In the Gobi, a single day can swing from heat to many degrees below freezing. The Bactrian camel protects itself with a fine undercoat, shed naturally every spring. The fibre is warm and light, in a natural gold: the colour that has belonged to the classic coat for a century.
Cashmere
Cashmere goat · Steppes of Mongolia
Winters on the Mongolian steppe are among the harshest on earth. To endure them, the goat grows beneath its outer coat a down of extraordinary fineness, combed out by hand when spring arrives. It is the lightest and softest of the three. A cashmere coat warms without making itself felt.
Alpaca
Alpaca · Andean altiplano
At four thousand metres, on the Andean altiplano, the air is thin and the nights are frozen. The alpaca is shorn once a year, and its fleece yields a silken fibre, with a lustre of its own and a drape you notice with every step. Of the three, the one with the most presence.
From mill to atelier.
The fibres are spun and woven in the historic mills of Biella, in Piedmont, where they have been worked for eight centuries.
From there they travel to the atelier, in a village on the dehesa of Extremadura, where every coat is designed, cut and sewn by hand.
