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More about the fiber
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Retains your body
heat. Incredible thermal capacity.
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Protects who is
wearing against hard and soft weather.
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Hollow fiber,
breaths and light weight.
Very strong.
Does not loose shape.
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Does not peel. Hard
to wrinkle. Repels tiny rain.
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Fits in a hand bag.
Ideal for traveling.
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Un-common and
unique fiber. Even cashmere is 70% made in China from Goat and is widely
spread around the world. Alpaca fiber is unique, made from alpacas.
The Quality of the fiber has a direct relation with the quality of the
live stock. That is why you should find, same as wine, different
varieties and feelings when you wear alpaca garments. World wide
production of alpaca fiber is around 1% of cashmere.
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Alpacas
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Friendly animals
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They are not killed. Just sheared. It keeps them fresh during summer
and ready hair growth for winter.
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They need to be raised for humans. Hard to live with no human
assistance.
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They originally live in the highlands, really strong and hard
weather. Even that, they have the capability to live in warm
weather.
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With humans they make an ideal and harmonic society human-animal
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Impact in
Peru
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Alpacas
had started to be farmed in other countries from time to now.
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Even
that, we use alpaca fiber from Peru and we, as Peruvians, want to share with
you some reflections.
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Alpaca
is a domesticated animal for centuries in the highlands of Peru, by native
people.
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Most
farms are small, main source of thousands of these humble families.
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As many
things in Peru there is a chain of micro or small business to finish the
whole process.
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In other
words, the "industry" is strongly supported in small and family based
business.
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There is
a new impulse from Peruvian designers
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They are making
garments with modern influence but respecting all the ethnic and tradition
of the alpaca.
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This
"industry" has an economic and more important, a social impact among
Peruvians and their national economy.
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