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  2. Alpaca fiber - Wikipedia

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    Alpaca scarf. Cambridge Food, Garden and Produce Festival, England. Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. There are two different types of alpaca fleece. The most common fleece type comes from a Huacaya. Huacaya fiber grows and looks similar to sheep wool in that the animal looks "fluffy".

  3. Mohair - Wikipedia

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    Mohair (pronounced / ˈmoʊhɛər /) is a fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat (not Angora wool from the fur of the Angora rabbit ). Both durable and resilient, mohair is lustrous with high sheen, [1] and is often blended to add these qualities to a textile. Mohair takes dye exceptionally well.

  4. Angora wool - Wikipedia

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    Angora wool. Angora hair or Angora fibre refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora rabbit. While the names of the source animals are similar, Angora fibre is distinct from mohair, which comes from the Angora goat. Angora fibre is also distinct from cashmere, which comes from the cashmere goat. Angora is known for its softness, thin fibres ...

  5. Textiles of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    At first wool and silk fabric was imported, then sheep and silkworms as well as European foot pedal looms all by the late 1530s. By 1580, Mexico had become one of the most productive areas for wool and silk cloth. Most of the production was concentrated in the present day states of Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Puebla. At first Spanish weavers dominated ...

  6. Cashmere wool - Wikipedia

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    Cashmere wool. Cashmere scarves. Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat. It has been used to make yarn, textiles and clothing for hundreds of years. Cashmere is closely associated with the Kashmir shawl, the word "cashmere" deriving from an ...

  7. Pashmina (material) - Wikipedia

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    Pashmina (/ p ʌ ʃ ˈ m iː n ə, p æ ʃ-/, also US: / p ɑː ʃ-/) refers to, depending on the source, the cashmere wool of the Changthangi cashmere goat, for fine Kashmiri cashmere wool or a synonym for cashmere wool. The word pashm means "wool" in Persian, but in Kashmir, pashm referred to the raw unspun wool of domesticated Changthangi goats.

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