Organic Gaddi Wool
Desi (Indigenous) Himalayan Gaddi Sheep
Gaddi is a Himalayan Desi sheep breed local in Himachal Pradesh, India. Desi means local or indigenous to India.
The Gaddis are a semi-nomadic tribe. Each year, in February or March, they leave their winter pastures on the Himalayan foothills, and climb towards the nutritious grass of the Lahul and Spiti plains, arriving by the mid-summer nights. With the first sign of the autumn chill, they again head south.
They say that the handspun wool also has Ayurvedic healing properties, as the sheep feed on natural organic herbs found in the alpine meadows of the Himalayan mountains.
This is the start of some shawls for Fall.