{"id":332,"date":"2017-01-22T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/22\/fibers-of-the-andes-vicuna\/"},"modified":"2017-01-22T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:53:00","slug":"fibers-of-the-andes-vicuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/fibers-of-the-andes-vicuna.html","title":{"rendered":"Fibers of the Andes &#8211; Vicuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>\nVicuna<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nJust after the holidays we took a quick trip to South<br \/>\nAmerica, visiting Peru and Argentina.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe fibers of &nbsp;Peru include llama, alpaca and vicuna.&nbsp; I discussed alpaca fiber&nbsp; (1\/7\/17 Alpaca Christmas Gift) so today we<br \/>\nwill visit the vicuna, probably less known.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nLlams, alpacas and vicunas are members of the family of<br \/>\ncamelids.&nbsp; The ancestors originated in<br \/>\nthe great plains of&nbsp; North America 40 to<br \/>\n50 million years ago. Approximately 3million years ago these New World camels<br \/>\nmigrated to South America.&nbsp; All camelids<br \/>\nhave usuable fiber, and the cinnamon-colored fiber from the vicuna is the finest and most<br \/>\nluxurious.&nbsp; It is also the most<br \/>\nexpensive due to the their near-extinction&nbsp;<br \/>\nfrom European hunters.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nFor decades the export of vicuna fiber was forbidden by<br \/>\ninternational laws. With these efforts, the wild vicuna herds have increased to<br \/>\napproximately \u00bc million and the wool is being hand gathered legally.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\nThese are shy animals and the smallest of the camelids,<br \/>\nabout 150 pounds.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aksB5PoCPHE\/WIUM81S0e8I\/AAAAAAAACz0\/103TBaEMiXIwRl0ZaBZ4GsNRdzU9-Ea3gCLcB\/s1600\/vicuna.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aksB5PoCPHE\/WIUM81S0e8I\/AAAAAAAACz0\/103TBaEMiXIwRl0ZaBZ4GsNRdzU9-Ea3gCLcB\/s400\/vicuna.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicuna Just after the holidays we took a quick trip to South America, visiting Peru and Argentina. The fibers of &nbsp;Peru include llama, alpaca and vicuna.&nbsp; I discussed alpaca fiber&nbsp; (1\/7\/17 Alpaca Christmas Gift) so today we will visit the vicuna, probably less known. Llams, alpacas and vicunas are members of the family of camelids.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}