About The Alpaca

What is an Alpaca?

The Alpaca is a member of the South American family of the Camellia. A relative of the Llama and the Vicuna. Peru possesses the mayor population of alpacas in the word with around 3 million samples.

There are two different kinds of alpaca, the Suri, which has straight and longer fiber and the Huacayo, which has short and curly fiber. The alpaca is very important in the andinian economy; it provides meet, fiber for the direct consumer and leather and fur for the textile industries.

The alpaca fur provides one of the most thin and luxurious natural fibers in the world. As soft as the cashmere and seven times warmer and three times stronger and lighter than the wool's ship. Another extraordinary property of the alpaca fiber is that it is not very ruff like other fibers and the alpaca can produce a large range of colors.

Are Alpacas kill for their fur?

No alpaca is harm in the making of our alpaca fur products, all of our alpaca furs came from alpacas that have died, do to natural causes, like from the extreme temperatures that they are expose in the high altitude of the Andes. Aside that there is a prohibition against killing alpacas in Peru, alpacas provide one of the softest and most luxurious fibers in the world so it would be a huge lost for the farming and textile industries to kill this animals just for its fur.