Baby Alpaca Silk 3/9mn Yarn
These yarns are incomparable in their softness.
The fineness of our Baby Alpaca gives a downy blur to the finished yarn, making it feel much like cashmere.
We have the blend done with Cultivated Silk, to bump up the whiteness and to give the yarn a remarkable drape and color acceptance.
These yarns have been a part of the Dyeworks for over a decade and are a staple for our customers.
Now we are offering them to our Weaver Creek Customers, so that you will have great success with them, as well.
70% Baby Alpaca and 30% Cultivated silk,
Baby Alpaca Silk 3/9nm is three ply and approximately 1491 yards per pound.
- Alpaca
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Alpacas are members of the camelid family and originate in the Andes mountains in South America. There are two types, Suri and Huacaya; Suris are much rarer than Huacayas comprising only about 10% of the alpaca population. Alpacas are much smaller than llamas, standing about 3 feet tall and weighing about 100-180 pounds. Alpacas are delicate in appearance with a gentle disposition. They are a one coated animal (lacking the guard hair that most llamas have) and grow about 5-8 pounds of fiber a year, at a rate of about 3.5 inches per year. Their gestation period is 335 days, and females normally give birth once a year to a baby (cria) that weighs 10-19 pounds. Their life span is about 15-20 years.
