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  2. Alpaca fiber - Wikipedia

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    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". The second type of alpaca is Suri and makes up less than 10% of the South American alpaca population.

  3. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    In both techniques, dog, mountain goat, or sheep wool and shredded cedar bark are combined to create textiles featuring curvilinear formline designs. Tlingit weaver Jennie Thlunaut (1892–1986) was instrumental in this revival. Button blankets are wool blankets embellished with mother-of-pearl buttons worn on significant occasions, such as ...

  4. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    The ratio of weft to warp threads had a fine count before the Bosque Redondo internment and declined in the following decades, then rose somewhat to a midrange ratio of five to one for the period 1920–1940. 19th-century warps were colored handspun wool or cotton string, then switched to white handspun wool in the early decades of the 20th ...

  5. Follow These Step-by-Step Instructions to Knit Your Very Own ...

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    Create the first knit stitch on your right needle: Insert the needle from left to right into the first stitch. Wrap yarn over from left to right. Pull the yarn through to create a loop on your ...

  6. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Alpaca Alpaca is a name given to two distinct things: The wool of the Peruvian alpaca. A style of fabric originally made from alpaca fiber but now frequently made from a similar type of fiber. Angora Angora refers to the hair of the angora rabbit, or the fabric made from angora rabbit fur. (Fabric made from angora goat is mohair.) [3] Appliqué

  7. Gift ideas for people who are always cold: Blankets, slippers ...

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    Made of sustainably sourced alpaca and wool, this cozy sweater is like wearing a hug. The classic crew neckline and relaxed silhouette give this sweater the ability to pair with pretty much ...

  8. Mohair - Wikipedia

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    Mohair is a very soft yarn when compared with other natural and synthetic fibers. Due to mohair's lacking prominent, protruding scales along the hair's surface, it is often blended with wool or alpaca. Blending the heavily scaled wool helps the smooth mohair fibers hold their shape and stick together when spun into yarn.

  9. Awamaki - Wikipedia

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    Most of the wool that Awamaki weavers work with is shorn from their own sheep and alpaca. Llama wool is also used, but being very coarse it is used only for utilitarian items such as sacks, ropes and horse blankets. Iconography. Andean weaving includes a rich tradition of iconography.

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