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Dyeing, Weaving and Finishing
your BabyMo Blanket or Throw

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Mohair

BabyMo Blankets and other mohair fabrics are hand made at our Port Elizabeth factory, which can be visited by prior arrangement.

Mohair comes from the Angora goat and you can find out more about them by clicking the picture.

Commercially produced mohair loop yarns of very fine mohair are made to our specification, and then dyed in small batches. All the dying is done on site, allowing us to develop the clear bright and individual colours, for which BabyMo is so well known.

Short warps are prepared - just 18 blankets will be made - and put on hand looms.

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Then our expert weavers put the weft across, building up the design. As it is removed from the loom, each piece inspected and should there be any small faults, repairs are made.

Each blanket is then washed, to remove any surplus dye, and to set the weave. Dried in the South African sun, the blanket starts its long hand finishing process.

Fringing is all hand done, and the effect can not be reproduced by machine.

Then it is raised with steel brushes to give the special 'fluffy" appearance that is BabyMo.

The fringes are then trimmed and the blanket thoroughly inspected for the last time.

Our labels are added, the blanket folded (or rolled if its going a long way) and it goes to our stock room ready for dispatch.

From here it goes to our shops, or to other shops in S Africa, or dispatched to international buyers, and overseas retailers. Baby-Mo has established itself as a premium article, and is valued around the world.


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