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For a long-sleeve shirt sent to Aus it would be about $91USD ($120AUD). That's pretty similar (ridiculously) to buying local Smartwool or IB gear, which realistically makes no sense given the abundance of Australian and NZ wool we have available.
I'd like to know more about bacterial resistant qualities and thermo-regulation of Yak vs Merino before I slap down that amount however.
The anti-bacterial properties in merino and yak (and many other natural animal fibres) are all very similar as far as I know. There will be slight differences due to the different chemical and physical nature of the fibres, but the yak has worked just as well as any merino for us so far. Also Tencel has very good anti-bacterial properties (much, much better than any synthetic and significantly better than cotton).
We have done lab testing on this fabric to compare it to Icebreaker fabrics and the results are quite encouraging (although we prefer to judge the warmth on field testing not lab testing, as that is what really counts). The thermal resistance on our fabric was 0.038 Celsius.M2/W.
The Icebreaker fabric 200gsm 100% merino is around 0.035 Celsius.M2/W, and the Icebreaker 260gsm 100% merino is 0.040 Celsius.M2/W.
Considering our fabric contains 35% Tencel which helps a lot with the durability and feeling, we were very pleased with the results and believe it shows what yak is capable of.
I hope that makes sense, but if you have any more questions let me know.
Cheers Stefan
Nowadays I typically avoid pure wool due to durability concerns, and I'd much rather lose some antibacterial-ness to gain faster wicking and drying.
Will consider this drop.
Cheers