About La Mohair
LA Mohair, founded by five rural women in 2013, has grown into an award-winning, all-women business known for producing exquisite mohair garments for luxury markets worldwide. Recently honored with the SJM Flex Environmental Award and recognized as the Best Small Exporter of the Year in 2019, LA Mohair remains committed to sustainability. The company sources its mohair from SAMIL Nature Fibre and has implemented water conservation, fire safety, and workplace hygiene initiatives, ensuring both environmental stewardship and employee well-being. With a growing team, LA Mohair continues to lead in ethical luxury, crafting products for global retail distributors.
Locally Sourced & Globally Loved
Only locally sourced natural fibres, particularly from Angora goats, are used to create high-quality mohair garments. The goats are shorn twice a year, following Mohair South Africa’s strict anti-animal-cruelty regulations. All mohair yarn is sourced from local suppliers, supporting community initiatives and ensuring sustainability through a closed supply loop.
LA Mohair adheres to global standards, being a member of the Textile Exchange. This ensures environmental conservation, transformation, and accountability in their mohair supply chain. LA Mohair is the only South African manufacturer that handcrafts kid-mohair products. Raw yarn is carefully transformed into garments, with 95% of the output being exported to international luxury markets.
The result is a line of exceptionally soft, finely crafted kid-mohair garments, with a focus on both production efficiency and product quality, enhancing the lives of employees and customers alike.
Our business has surprised us with rapid and tremendous growth within the manufacturing and exporting sphere. This is due to massive passion for our work, external assistance from numerous organisations from the Eastern Cape and unwavering mutual respect among us that we were able to achieve our goals. Because of this strong support structure, we are also able to provide training for unskilled and semi–skilled African women in knitting and weaving. Through these inhouse training programmes, we aim to further develop and upskill these women to further the success of La Mohair.
