nglish have corrupted the word into the present term mohair.

The color of mohair varies in different localities and on different
individuals. In the vilayet of Koniah, in Asia Minor, is a breed of
goats producing a brownish colored mohair. This material is sold upon
the market as Koniah mohair. The Koniah goat, however, has been rapidly
disappearing, as the herdsmen found that the foreign demand was for
white mohair, and they have been crossing the white Angora bucks on the
brown Koniah does. There are still over one hundred thousand pounds of
Koniah mohair produced each year. In the Angora flocks of Asia Minor one
always finds some colored goats. Black, blue, brown or red, usually with
an admixture of white, are the common colors. The same thing may be said
of the American flocks of Angoras. One may have been breeding white
Angoras for years when, without apparent cause, a colored kid is
dropped. Then color of the soil may give the mohair a peculiar tinge,
but this usually scours out. The kemp in Asia Minor is sometimes a
different color from the mohair. The kemp may be red or black and the
mohair white. White mohair is what the manufacturer wants. If he wishes
to make colored goods, he can dye white whatever color he wishes, but a
colored mohair can only be used for certain colored goods.

GRADES AND GRADING OF MOHAIR.

In Turkey, after the fleece is shorn, the owner packs each fleece
separately in sacks. He picks out the tag locks, colored fleeces or
objectionable mohair, and after washing it, or making it more fit for
market, he packs this in a sack by itself. Every village has its buyers,
usually Greeks or Armenians, and there are a few traveling buyers. These
men gradually collect the mohair. Men who have more money than they
need put that money into mohair, as mohair is always salable, and it is
so bulky that there is not much danger of it being stolen. There are so
many robbers in Turkey that nothing is absolutely safe. One coffee house
keeper in a small village sent about six dollars down to a larger place,
as he was afraid to keep so much money in his house. When the mohair is
collected in the larger towns it is again sorted, care being taken not
to mix lots from different sections of the country. It is then forwarded
to Constantinople of Ismidt, which is on the Sea of Marmara, near
Constantinople. Here expert sorters go over the lots again. They do not
break up the fleece, but they collect fleeces which a