Vegetable Cashmere® is a next-generation, plant-based textile built with soy protein fiber – an ingredient valued for its innovationand alignment with conscious material sourcing. Soft, breathable, and refined, it is designed for premium knitwear and apparel, offering a balance of comfort, versatility, and elevated hand feel.

Materials shape how we feel, how we move, and how products perform. Vegetable Cashmere® was created to rethink thatfoundation. Now, through World Collective’s sourcing infrastructure, it gives brands worldwide a direct path from material innovation to commercialization.

Input byproduct upcycling, transforming soy processing residue into a new high-value luxury fiber

A lower environmental footprint than animal-derived cashmere, supported by preliminary LCA findings.

Designed for next-to-skin comfort, with a focus on minimizing common irritants

Machine washable, moisture-managing, and built for strong everyday performance

Designed to meet the highest standards of modern luxury, with every claim grounded in data, testing, and real-world use.

Bringing together elegance, wellness, performance, and sustainability in one material.

Vegetable Cashmere® begins with soy protein isolate, recovered from soy processing and transformed through a specialized spinning process into a refined luxury fiber.

Blended with lyocell and cotton, it is engineered as a modern material platform for elegance, wellness, performance, and sustainability. This approach transforms an existing agricultural byproduct into a high-value textile, connecting material innovation with more responsible sourcing.

Vegetable Cashmere® is available for sampling, product development, and scaled production, supporting brands from concept through commercialization.

Its compatibility with modern knit development and manufacturing systems allows brands to translate the fiber into products ready for market across premium knitwear and lifestyle categories.

Premium Knitwear

Luxury Loungewear

Active Apparel

Elevated Basics

Lifestyle Textiles

Built with KD Knit’s
Technical Expertise

KD Knit brings decades of experience in knitwear design, material innovation, and manufacturing, supporting brands from fiber through finished product.

Together with World Collective, this collaboration brings Vegetable Cashmere® forward as part of a platform for collaboration across material development, product design, and manufacturing