Steppe Cooperatives

Pastoral provenance, preserved value

Eeltei Baylag is owned directly by pastoral families across the Mongolian steppe, ensuring every harvest of spring fleece enriches the communities tending the land.

Direct Governance

Sovereignty on the pasture

Traditional commodity brokers strip economic returns from nomadic regions. Our structure treats each herder family as a governing shareholder, retaining processing decisions and raw fleece equity within the original pasture collective.

By bypassing intermediate trading houses in provincial hubs, we preserve ancient grazing corridors while funding veterinary oversight and regional community infrastructure.

Seasonal Milestones

Four steppe cycles

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Winter grazing

Spring comb

Manual dehairing

Circular knitting

Sub-zero winds across alpine ridges force indigenous steppe goats to cultivate ultra-fine underdown beneath coarse protective guard hairs.

Herders slowly tease out loosening underfleece using hand-carved wooden combs, shielding animals from early season temperature drops.

Fleece sorts by staple length and natural shade across three cooperative hubs without chemical bath treatments or artificial softening agents.

Pure long-staple single yarns spin into calibrated gauges on slow circular beds, producing knitwear engineered for structural resilience.

Arkhangai Collective

When we comb the spring underdown together, we keep the fiber unbroken and the pasture whole. The harvest stays where our animals graze.

Batbold D., cooperative elder, Tsenkher soum

Finished steppe knitwear

Explore our small-batch cardigans, structural sweaters, and undyed wraps crafted from this season's harvest.