“Yak wool from the heart of the Himalayas.” That's the promise, and a company tag line of sorts, for Khunu USA, a Glenwood Springs, Colo., company that sells men's and women's sweaters made out of yak ...

“Yak wool from the heart of the Himalayas.” That's the promise, and a company tag line of sorts, for Khunu USA, a Glenwood Springs, Colo., company that sells men's and women's sweaters made out of yak ...

The idea for Khunu, an outerwear company started by a British and an American expat in China, originated on a windswept hill on the Tibetan plateau one frigid December. “We were looking down at some ...

Johnston has been helping herders switch to producing yak wool, and using their yak wool for her high-end British knitwear label Tengri. She says yak wool is soft and warm, and that the animal is less ...

"Yak wool from the heart of the Himalayas." That's the promise, and a company tag line of sorts, for Khunu USA, a Glenwood Springs, Colo., company that sells men's and women's sweaters made out of yak ...

In the vast, snowy Mongolian countryside, nomadic herders are combing through the hair shed by their yak. It used to be that they would throw away the hair – until Nancy Johnston persuaded them it ...