Alpaca fiber processing

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In this video filled post, I show you how I process alpaca by hand beginning with washing, then carding, spinning, followed by plying, I finish with instructions to complete a detailed yarn tag. This shows the entire process from raw fiber to spun yarn!

Check out what I did with all of this year's alpaca fiber from our animals.

Apart from actually shearing a sheep or wooly animal (hopefully I will get to do this someday), I have officially worked through the entire fleece to yarn process! Recently I was given a bag of raw…

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Whether you’re thinking starting an alpaca farm or are a seasoned rancher the question is always the same. What do you do with all that fleece?! I’m surprised to find that many folks shear it, ba…

Raw Alpaca Fiber I went to the Kid 'N Ewe fiber festival this weekend in Boerne, TX just north of San Antonio. I had so much fun! Being new to the whole spinning thing, it was amazing to see so many people spinning and the variety of wheels out there. There were almost no two alike. There was also roving and more roving. Lots of yarn, which now is boring. And there was raw fiber. What I've been waiting for! UPDATE: It is much easier to just spin dirty fleece than to wash it, then spin it…

I have been hand-processing my Alpaca's fiber since 2006. I thought I would share with you how I do it. Alpaca fiber does not have any lanolin in it, but it does have a lot of dust and dirt from them rolling in their dust bowls as you can see in the picture below. During the shearing process we collect the fiber in three different bags. The main blanket, is tagged with the alpaca's name and number 1. The neck and some of the other fiber as number 2 in a separate bag. Then the leg fibers go…

Alpaca Fleece . . . . Now What?: A dear friend and fellow fiber enthusiast generously gifted me several pounds of raw alpaca fleece in 3 colors - black, white, and cinnamon brown. Happy Dance! via GIPHY So what do you do with this wonderful bag of warm, fuzzy fluff? This Inst…

Diagram of the steps involved in the processing of Wool: WASHING, SORTING, CARDING, COMBING, SPINNING, PLYING.