Handspun Natural Alpaca & Wool from Chester Wool Company

Handspun Natural Alpaca & Wool

from Chester Wool Company
Super Bulky (5-6 wpi) ?
55 yards
(50 meters)
50% Camelid - Alpaca
50% Wool
plied, handspun
Care: Dry Flat, Hand Wash Cold
Dye: Undyed
Put up: Winding required
Source of fiber: Peru

50% Superfine Alpaca
50% Peruvian Highland Wool

Available in 3 colours:

  • 49419 - Ecru
  • 49420 - Natural Fawn
  • 49421 - Natural Grey

Handspun in the highland communities of Puno, the main Alpaca producing region of Peru. The women living in communities of Alpaca shepherds have a long history of traditional textile skills going back generations including hand spinning, which the program helps to preserve.

Combining their skills with modern yarn designs has created these beautiful handspun yarns which are not only wonderful to dye and knit with but also provide these small highland communities with more trade, enabling them to maintain their way of life as it has been for generations. By supporting this program we are helping to keep their skills alive and also the mountain villages themselves, where sheep and alpaca have been farmed for centuries, keeping families together by giving them the opportunity to earn money without having to move away from rural areas.