{"id":306,"date":"2018-05-12T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-02-13T04:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:32:54","slug":"camelid-fiber-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/camelid-fiber-part-three.html","title":{"rendered":"Camelid Fiber – Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nMeet the Camelids \u2013 Part Three<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn my previous blogs I discussed the members of the camelid
\nfamily: camels, vicunas and guanacos. 
\n<\/span>Two other species belong to this tribe, alpacas and llamas.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nLike vicunas and guanacos, alpacas and llamas are
\ndescendents of the Limini branch of the ancient camelids.  <\/span>While vicunas and guanacos are both wild
\ntribes, the alpacas and llamas have long been domesticated.  <\/span>Alpacas were domesticated nearly seven
\nthousand years ago, llamas shortly after, both in the Peruvian Andes.  <\/span>Originally it was thought that both alpacas
\nand llamas were descendents of guanacos, however DNA evidence has shown that
\nthe ancestor of llamas is the guanaco, the ancestor of alpacas is the vicuna.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nLlamas are used primarily as pack animals and there are
\nthree types of SouthAmerican llamas in existence today, the wooly type, the
\nnon-wooly type and an intermediate. 
\n<\/span>While some llamas shed their wool, others have to be shorn and because
\ntheir fiber tends not to be consistent, it has less of a commercial use.  <\/span>Frequently their fiber is blended with sheep
\nwool.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAlpacas are smaller than llamas and are bred for their
\nfiber.  <\/span>There are two types of alpaca,
\nthe Huacaya and the Suri.   <\/span>The huyaca
\nor \u201c wooly \u201ctype is the most prominent, while only less than 10 percent is suri
\nwith long, sleek fibers.  <\/span>Processing in
\nPeru includes sorting the fibers for natural color shades (22) and several
\nquality grades.  <\/span>Nearly half the yield
\nis graded as super fine. Each animal will produce 7-10 pounds of fleece per
\nyear.<\/div>\n
\nAlpaca textiles are light-weight woven fabrics, stronger
\nthan sheep woolen fabrics with a silky luster. 
\n<\/span>Frequently alpaca fibers are combined with manufactured fibers.<\/div>\n

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Cute, eh!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Alpaca scarf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the Camelids \u2013 Part Three In my previous blogs I discussed the members of the camelid family: camels, vicunas and guanacos.  Two other species belong to this tribe, alpacas and llamas. Like vicunas and guanacos, alpacas and llamas are descendents of the Limini branch of the ancient camelids.  While vicunas and guanacos are both…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}