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100% Grade A Himalayan cashmere
Men's Crew Neck Cashmere Sweater
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Size guideSecond line is the chest, measured across the garment laid flat. Between sizes, take the larger.
Product Highlights
- Fabric
- 100% cashmere
- Colour
- Ash Grey
- Neckline
- Crew neck (round)
- Fibre
- 12–16 micron
Knitted in the Pokhara workshop from pure Himalayan cashmere. The exact construction term is still being confirmed — our own sources disagree, and we would rather say that than pick the flattering one.
Additional details
- Grade
- Grade A Himalayan
- Breed
- Chyangra (Nepali cashmere goat)
- Origin
- Mustang, Manang & Dolpo · above 3,000 m
- Made in
- Pokhara, Nepal
- Sizes
- S–2XL
- Colourways
- 14, every one photographed
Ply, ply weight, GSM, gauge and neck opening are not stated anywhere in the parent catalogue. They are listed as unconfirmed in the full specification rather than guessed.
Sold By
This site lists the sweaters and explains them. The parent workshop takes payment, knits and ships — which is why the buy button leaves.
Made by Renu Tamang
Renu Tamang is the maker the workshop names on the parent's listing for all three men's sweaters. She works in mending and quality control — repairing defects, attaching labels, and inspecting the garment before it is packed. She is not the only pair of hands on it: your sweater is knitted by Hira Lal Tamang, linked by Rina Gurung and finished by Sanita Roka Chhetri before it reaches her. Four stations, four named people.
All 14 colourways, every one photographed
Fourteen dye lots, 54 photographs, no gaps and no stand-ins. This is the deepest colour range we make — the V-neck drops Sand and the quarter zip has one shade.
How we photograph colour
Every photograph above is of the colourway it labels, shot from that colourway's own dye lot. Not one sample recoloured fourteen times in software. The reason is the dyeing itself: the workshop dyes in small batches, and small batches drift between lots, so a single studio sample tinted fourteen ways would be a picture of a garment that does not exist.
This page is where that policy earns its keep, because it carries more colourways than anything else on the site. Received brighter or lighter than the photo is the largest single source of one-star reviews in this category — navy arriving as royal blue, specifically, repeated across three products from the same brand. Our near-navy is Yale Blue #2e3758. Our Midnight #221b2c is a near-black aubergine, not a navy, whatever your screen does with it, and we would sell more of it by calling it navy.
What the policy cannot fix is your screen. Cloth scatters light and a display emits it, so no photograph is a swatch. Twelve of the fourteen colourways carry the full front, sitting, side and back set; Midnight and Olive are shot from fewer angles, and we have said so rather than padding them out with another colour's frames. If the exact shade is what decides the purchase, ask us for a photograph of current stock before you order.
Four of these shades also have a page of their own, listing every sweater we make in them: Black Cashmere Sweaters for Men (Charcoal Black), Red Cashmere Sweaters for Men (Crimson Red), Grey Cashmere Sweaters for Men (Ash Grey and Graphite) and Brown Cashmere Sweaters for Men (Taupe Brown, Sandstone and Sand — Sand is knitted on the crew neck only).
Size & fit
Measurements are the garment laid flat, in centimetres. Sleeve is measured from the shoulder seam. If you are between sizes, take the larger — a crew neck that pulls across the chest never gets worn.
| Size | Length · Chest · Sleeve |
|---|---|
| S | 64 · 48 · 60 cm |
| M | 66 · 50 · 62 cm |
| L | 68 · 52 · 64 cm |
| XL | 70 · 54 · 66 cm |
| 2XL | 73 · 56 · 68 cm |
Sleeve length is its own number
Sleeve runs 60 cm at S and rises two centimetres a size to 68 cm at 2XL. It is listed as a separate column rather than folded into a single “fits chest 48–50” range because sleeve and body length are the sub-theme that defeats the usual size-up workaround. Sizing is the number one objection in this category — 50 negative fit mentions across four competitor products — and the pattern inside those complaints is consistent: a buyer sizes up to fix a tight chest, and then the arms are too long. A crew neck shows this more than a V-neck or a quarter zip does, because there is no collar or zip at the top of the garment drawing the eye away from the cuff.
Sizes stop at 2XL — 73 cm long, 56 cm across the chest — so there is no big-and-tall version of this sweater. Before you choose, read Men's Cashmere Sweater Size Guide & Fit, which explains how to measure a sweater you already own and compare it against this table.
Specification
| Composition | 100% cashmere |
|---|---|
| Neckline | Crew neck (round neck) |
| Grade | Grade A Himalayan |
| Fibre diameter | 12–16 micron |
| Breed | Chyangra (Nepali cashmere goat) |
| Origin | Mustang, Manang & Dolpo · above 3,000 m |
| Construction | Knitted in our Pokhara workshop |
| Made in | Pokhara, Nepal |
| Sizes | S–2XL |
| Colourways | 14 |
| Ply | To be confirmed from the workshop |
| Ply weight (grams) | To be confirmed from the workshop |
| Weight (GSM) | To be confirmed from the workshop |
| Gauge | To be confirmed from the workshop |
| Neck opening | To be confirmed from the workshop |
Five rows unconfirmed. Ply, grams, GSM and gauge are not stated on any men's sweater in the catalogue — the 8-ply muffler states its ply, the sweaters do not. These are the numbers buyers use to judge whether a sweater is substantial, so leaving them blank costs us sales. Guessing them would cost more.
Care
Hand wash at a maximum of 30 °C with a gentle wool detergent. Do not wring. Reshape while damp and lay flat to dry, out of direct sunlight. Do not machine wash. Store folded rather than hung — a hanger drags the shoulders of a knitted garment out of shape over a season.
Some pilling in the first two or three wears is normal, and a cashmere comb rather than a razor is the fix: Does Cashmere Pill?
It is lighter than you are expecting, and that is where the reviews split
Buyers new to cashmere expect heft. A wool sweater at this price is thick, so thickness becomes the proxy for quality, and a light cashmere sweater out of the parcel reads as cheap for a few seconds before it reads as warm. That few seconds is worth naming before you order rather than after.
Across the 1,841 marketplace ratings we read for this category, one garment property produced both the best reviews and the worst. On the closest comparable product, “warm without bulk” came up nine times and was positive nine times out of nine, with no negatives at all. In the same dataset, “too thin for the price” is the most common four-star complaint — the one that costs these brands their fifth star, and it lands on $300 sweaters as readily as on $100 ones.
Those are the same property, described by two people who arrived with different expectations. Cashmere at 12–16 micron insulates by trapping air rather than by mass; a fine crew neck is doing the job it was designed for, not cutting a corner. The closed neckline makes this the warmest of our three sweaters at the throat, which is the first place you feel cold and the first place you feel overheated — and the reason it is the wrong one for genuinely warm weather. If that is what you are shopping for, we have written the honest version of that answer: Can You Wear Cashmere in Summer?
What settles the question before it becomes a review is the numbers, and we are missing four of them. Ply, grams, GSM and gauge are marked to be confirmed in the table above rather than filled in with a plausible figure. If you want a dense, structured knit you can wear as outerwear, this is not that sweater, and no amount of copy changes what you feel when the box opens.
What goes under it, and what goes over
The crew opening is cut to sit flat over a shirt collar rather than push it up. That is the neckline's whole argument, and it is one buyers make explicitly: reviewers in this category check whether the opening clears a collar before they order, which makes neckline geometry a stated purchase criterion rather than a styling detail. A crew neck covers the collar and the knot. Worn over a plain T-shirt, or bare, it is the cleaner of the two shapes.
What it will not do is show a tie. If you wear a shirt and tie under a sweater regularly, the Men's V-Neck Cashmere Sweater is the same cloth, the same $155 and the same size chart in 13 colourways — the fourteen here minus Sand. If you want to be able to open the neck as the day warms up, the Men's Quarter Zip Cashmere Sweater is $120, but it is free size only. The full comparison is here: V-Neck vs Crew Neck: Which Cashmere Sweater?
For the layer underneath — undershirt or none, collar in or out — see What to Wear Under a Sweater. For the layer above, a crew neck is the neckline that works best under a jacket, because there is no V competing with the lapel line: How to Wear a Sport Coat with a Sweater.
Who makes it, in the order they touch it
Hira Lal Tamang knits the panels in the Knitting and Production department of our Pokhara workshop, on machines he has run for thirty years — his own profile puts a sweater at three to four days. From there Rina Gurung joins the front, back, sleeves and neckline on a linking machine, and Sanita Roka Chhetri washes and finishes the garment. Mending and quality control are separate stations with their own named people, and the crew neck's finisher is credited at the top of this page.
Two words you will not find on this page, because they are not true of this sweater. It is not hand-knitted: the panels come off knitting machines, and thirty years of skill at a machine is a real thing to sell without dressing it up as something else. It is not handloom-woven either — a handloom weaves flat cloth, and the workshop's handloom section makes shawls and blankets. A sweater is a knitted structure. Competitors in this price band use both phrases freely; we would rather lose the adjective than the claim.
The workshop is a social enterprise, founded in 2011 at Damside-17 in Pokhara, and employs more than 180 artisans. The full production chain, station by station and name by name, is set out in The Artisans Who Make Your Sweater. If what you want is to check the fibre rather than the people, the tests you can run on any cashmere sweater — including this one — are in How to Verify Your Cashmere Is Real.
Questions about this sweater
Can I wear a collared shirt under it?
Yes. The crew opening is cut to sit flat over a shirt collar rather than push it up, and layering versatility is something reviewers in this category check explicitly before they buy — neckline geometry is a stated purchase criterion, not a detail. What a crew neck will not do is show a tie knot. If you wear a shirt and tie under a sweater regularly, buy the V-neck instead.
Does it run small?
It runs true to the measurements in the table above, which is not the same thing as running true to your usual label. Runs small is the single biggest complaint in this category: 50 negative fit mentions across four competitor products, one of which concedes “May run small” in its own listing bullets. Measure a sweater you already own flat across the chest and compare it against our numbers. If you are between sizes, take the larger.
How long are the sleeves?
Sixty centimetres at S, rising two centimetres a size to 68 cm at 2XL, measured from the shoulder seam with the garment laid flat. Sleeve is given its own column rather than folded into a chest range because sleeve and body length are the sub-theme that defeats the usual size-up workaround — buyers who size up to fix a tight chest then report that the arms are too long. On a crew neck the cuff is the most visible thing about the fit, because nothing at the neckline is competing for your attention.
Is it too thin?
It is light, and that is deliberate rather than a corner cut. Cashmere at 12–16 micron insulates by trapping air, not by mass. In the review data we read, “warm without bulk” came up nine times on the closest comparable product and was positive nine times out of nine, with no negatives at all — while “too thin for the price” is the most common four-star complaint in the same dataset. Those are one property described by two buyers with different expectations. If you want a dense knit you can wear as outerwear, this is not it.
Is the colour on screen accurate?
Every one of the fourteen colourways is photographed from its own dye lot rather than digitally recoloured from a single sample, because small-batch dyeing varies between lots. That removes the largest cause of colour complaints but not all of them: cloth scatters light and a screen emits it, so no photograph is a swatch. Midnight in particular is a near-black aubergine that reads as navy under some lighting. If the exact shade decides the purchase, ask us for a photograph of current stock before you order.
Are all 14 colours actually photographed?
Yes, all fourteen — which is not true of either of our other two sweaters. The V-neck has eleven of its thirteen shot; the quarter zip has two photographs in total. Twelve of the fourteen crew colourways carry the full front, sitting, side and back set, Midnight has three angles and Olive has two. Nothing on this page is a stand-in borrowed from another colour or another garment.
Will it pill?
A little, in the first two or three wears, as short surface fibres work loose. It settles after that. Comb it gently with a cashmere comb rather than shaving it — a razor cuts fibre and leaves fresh ends that pill again sooner. Pilling does appear in marketplace reviews for this category, but more mildly than most buyers expect.
14 of 14 colourways photographed · 54 frames · 12 with the full front, sitting, side and back set