Alpaca fleece

In this article, I will show you five things I did with my alpaca fleece and tell you whether or not each product was profitable.

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I got some beautiful Alpaca fiber on the Internet a month or two ago. Of course, when you are buying form a new seller, you don't always know what you are going to get! The fleece was lovely, but it did contain a lot of guard hairs. Sooo...For this week's manual therapy (aka keeping my arthritic fingers mobile!), I dehaired almost a pound of raw Alpaca. It was incredibly relaxing and I find that I really connect with my fiber when I take the time to process it carefully. Some was dyed, some…

Suri Alpaca fleece has the lustrous, penciled fiber that hangs down in "dreadlocks", giving the suri alpaca an entirely different appearance. Fibers of both types are considered luxury fibers in the textile trade because of their unique qualities.

Apart from actually shearing a sheep or wooly animal (hopefully I will get to do this someday), I have officially worked through the entire fleece to yarn process! Recently I was given a bag of raw…

Alpaca fiber is known for the soft fleece and felt that can be made from it. Here's a step-by-step guide for making alpaca felt, from a Sherwood teenager who's been making it since she was 8 years old.

An Infographic of alpaca fleece colours

Having pet Alpacas might seem crazy to most but I know there are lot’s of people who have them in their yards to keep the grass down. In fact our local rural area I swear every second house h…

Forever inspired by my dear friend Elis Vermeulen of Holland to work with raw fleece (see my previous post on working with Texel with Elis), I decided to make myself a laptop bag a while back using…