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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. Alpaca - Wikipedia

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    Camelus pacos Linnaeus, 1758. Vicugna pacos (Linnaeus, 1758) The alpaca ( Lama pacos) is a species of South American camelid mammal. It is similar to, and often confused with, the llama. However, alpacas are often noticeably smaller than llamas. The two animals are closely related and can successfully crossbreed.

  4. Incan animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    The Inca state was concerned with sourcing both meat and fiber from these animals. Incan animal husbandry refers to how in the pre-Hispanic andes, camelids played a truly important role in the economy. In particular, the llama and alpaca —the only camelids domesticated by Andean men— [1] which were raised in large-scale houses and used for ...

  5. Titus Salt - Wikipedia

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    Titus visited the spinners in Bradford trying to interest them in using the wool for worsted manufacture, with no success so he set up as a spinner and manufacturer. [3] In 1836, Salt came upon some bales of Alpaca wool in a warehouse in Liverpool and, after taking some samples away to experiment, came back and bought the consignment.

  6. Yak fiber - Wikipedia

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    Yak fiber. Yak fiber is the term commonly used to refer yak fiber wool produced from the coat hair of yaks ( Bos grunniens ), a long-haired bovine mainly found in the Himalayan region, Tibetan plateau, and some areas of Mongolia and Central Asia. Yak fiber wool has been used by nomads in the Trans-Himalayan region for over a thousand years to ...

  7. Huacaya alpaca - Wikipedia

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    The Huacaya alpaca is described as having a "wavy and spongy look" to its fiber compared to its counterpart breed, the Suri, which has "straight fiber with no crimp". Huacaya have a birth weight ranging from 8–23 pounds (3.6–10.4 kg) and grow into an adult weight of 105–108 pounds (48–49 kg). Ideally, the conformation of a Huacaya ...

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