Material.

HYPOALLERGENIC Raw material !!!

We exclusively use first grade very thin fibers Australian lambskin furs tanned and sanitized to the strictest standards for hospital and baby health care. Our skins are protected against bacteria and fungus and this protection withstands our standard washing procedures. Don't let marketing words fool you. Know what you buy, learn to feel what quality is all about. See here under.  "Just feel it".

Eina BEMS exclusively uses Australian "First Grade", "thin fiber" lambskins.

About 70% of all Australian sheep are pure breed merinos bred for the production of fine wool. About 25% are of fine to medium crossbred types and 5% coarse crossbred.

There are three main categories of wool-skins

- not sheared spring lambskins = "EARLY SKINS"
- sheared spring lambskins from lambs shorn later in the season = "SHORN LAMBSKINS"
- From mature sheep = "SHEEPSKINS" .

Spring lambskin production commences about July/August and reaches a peak around Nov/Dec.

- Early skins are of wool length 1.5 to 2.0 inches, the 2.0 to 3.0 inch length is produced September through November.
- Shorn lambskins come into production about January and continue thereafter in wool lengths starting at 0.5 to 1.0 inches and developing, as the season progresses to 1.5 to 2.5 inches.
- Sheepskin: from mature sheep. The production continues all year round but is most prolific in the period November to February when the short wool sheep are slaughtered. Wool lengths from mature sheep vary from under 0.5 inches to 2.0 to 2.5 inches and longer depending upon the time of the season.

Skins are used in 2 major lines of business:

- fell mongering for wool recovery with pelt quality as a secondary interest.
- wool-skin dressing trade, where wool style, density and pelt quality are of equal importance.

Parameters of quality for the Lambskin dressing trade

Wool style

- Good to Super "GS" Good color, free or nearly free of burr and/or seed. May contain light dust but high yielding skins.
- Ordinary "ORD" Light to moderately burry, seedy, earthy, discoloured, heavy conditioned wool - or any combination of those faults in moderate degree. May also include slightly damaged wool.
- Inferior "INF" Heavily burry, seedy, earthy, badly discoloured, heavy condition wool

Wool density

- Very thin Fiber/High density: 22 to 27 microns = 40,000 to 60,000 follicles/sq.inch.
- Thin fiber/medium density: 30 to 60 microns = 15 to 30,000 follicles/sq.inch.
- Not so thin fibers/low density: 60 microns and over = maximum 15,000 follicles/sq.inch declining rapidly the thicker the fibers.

Pelt quality

- Prime Dressing: Sound good shape, free from flay marks and knife cuts, free from seed. Clean, fresh stock. May include light rib, especially around necks.
- Second Dressing: May include light rib and skins with occasional neck and/or flank cuts and/or faults. May be slightly asymmetrical pattern. May show light belly seed. Otherwise free or practically free of seed.
- Third selected damage: May show cuts and/or medium rib and/or light to medium seed or be misshapen but the prime area free from serious defect.
- Damaged Pelts: Heavy rib and/or seed damage and/or misshapen or otherwise damaged. All extremely badly damaged or inferior pelts excluded.

Eina BEMS',  and its sub-contractors, select the best raw materials available in Australia.

FIRST GRADE SPRING EARLY LAMBSKINS =
- Wool style: "GS" Good to Super.
- Wool density: Very thin fibers/very high density
- Pelt quality: Prime dressing for the wool-skin dressing trade