What is Loden?
Loden is made from one hundred percent natural wool. This is processed in up to 40 elaborate steps. A yarn is spun from the wool, which is then woven into a woolen fabric. Fulling refers to the "kneading" of the wet fabric until it becomes matted. This creates properties that turn the traditional fabric into a natural functional fabric. Virgin wool has always been obtained from Austrian mountain sheep for this purpose. To enhance the quality, fine wool from other animals is also added. These include alpacas, merino sheep, angora rabbits and cashmere goats.
“Loden from Steiner1888 warms, breathes and regenerates.”
Special properties of loden fabrics
WATER-REPELLENT
The dense surface and the natural grease content of the wool create an impregnation. Depending on the intensity of the rain, you can spend several hours in the wet with a Steiner1888 product.
MOISTURIZING
The wool fiber can absorb up to a third of its own weight in water without feeling wet. The moisture is absorbed by the fiber and slowly released again.
WINDABLE
The felted surface of the loden from Steiner1888 shrinks during fulling. This process binds the fibers together to form a structure that has a wind-repellent effect.
BREATHABLE
Despite the dense surface texture of the loden, its fibers are able to store both body heat and cold air. This ensures good thermal balance.
SMELL INHIBITING
Wool has the ability to neutralize odours. Synthetic fibers need to be washed after being worn once. With loden, a simple airing is enough to get sweat and the like out of the fibers.
FLAME RESISTANT
Due to its naturally high protein content, loden has a low susceptibility to flying sparks and fire. In contrast to synthetic fibers, it is therefore flame retardant.
Despite the dense surface texture of the loden, its fibers are able to store both body heat and cold air. This ensures good thermal balance.
Wool has the ability to neutralize odours. Synthetic fibers need to be washed after being worn once. With loden, a simple airing is enough to get sweat and the like out of the fibers.
Due to its naturally high protein content, loden has a low susceptibility to flying sparks and fire. In contrast to synthetic fibers, it is therefore flame retardant.
WOOL TYPE
AUSTRIAN MOUNTAIN SHEEP
Robust, warm, classically beautiful.
The mountain sheep originated in the Austrian Alps. The animals are shorn twice a year before and after the alpine season. Steiner1888 uses the wool to produce blankets of incomparably hard-wearing and cozy-warm quality. Wool blankets made from pure new wool from mountain sheep are moisture and dirt repellent. This also makes them ideal for outdoor use. They are also increasingly being used as healthy sleeping blankets.
ALPAKA WOOL
Lightweight & colorful.
Alpaca wool has excellent thermal properties. The reason for this is the fiber structure. This ensures perfect heat balance and is also very light. Home textiles made from virgin alpaca wool are considered durable as they are three times more tear-resistant than sheep's wool. Alpaca textiles are particularly vibrant when dyed. Even undyed, the wool shines in incomparably beautiful natural tones. Due to its antibacterial components, alpaca wool is the perfect choice of blanket for allergy sufferers.
MERINO WOOL
Soft and airy, wonderfully warm.
Probably the best known type of sheep is the merino sheep. Its new wool is considered to be particularly fine, elastic, antistatic and fire-repellent. It produces between two and three kilograms of the finest quality wool per year. Blankets made from this wool are considered to be particularly airy, soft and warm. These fibers have a cooling effect in summer and a warming effect in winter. External influences such as dirt and odors do not affect the fine material.
CASHMERE WOOL
For true connoisseurs.
Cashmere goats come from the region of the same name in Asia. Their wool coat is thick, as they live in harsh conditions at around 4000 meters above sea level at temperatures of up to minus 40 degrees. The fine hair is obtained from the undercoat. It is considered to have fine fibers and is one of the finest types of wool. Steiner1888 chooses cashmere for blankets because of its soft but durable qualities. It warms many times better than sheep's wool and does not crease. Cashmere wool is the ideal material for home textiles. Due to its longevity, cashmere blankets are of lasting value.