The natural colors from the Alpaca
During our recent trip to New Zealand we found exquisite baby clothing completely made of 100% Peruvian wool. At a fancy store on Devonport Island, several gorgeous tops knitted in purple and grey alpaca yarn shared shelf space with a supercomfy beige baby blanket.
In our globalized world it isn’t really remarkable to find yarns from so afar. Actually, many stores around the globe carry precious garments completely manufactured from Alpaca yarn. But how over processed that wool has been? What type of dyes have been used to obtain those outstanding colors? And where does alpaca wool comes from after all?
100% baby alpaca yarn feels like butter and is incredibly soft, warm, and lofty, while a large array of its colors come naturally from the variations in the alpacas themselves—no dyed colors! Alpaca fiber is hypo-allergenic. That means that people with wool sensitivities can wear it. Alpaca is a hollow core fiber so it keeps you warmer than wool when you need to be warm, but breathes when you need to be cool. Alpaca fiber can be as fine as cashmere. 
Alpaca (also know as Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in appearance. Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of southern Peru, northern Bolivia, Ecuador, and northern Chile at an altitude of 3,500 m (11,500 ft) to 5,000 m (16,000 ft) above sea-level, throughout the year. Alpacas are considerably smaller than llamas, and unlike llamas, alpacas were not bred to be beast of burden but were bred specifically for their fiber. Alpaca fiber is used for making knitted and woven items, much as wool is.
The Nativa Store catalog features luxurious items completely made of natural Peruvian Alpaca. Check us out!
