Fiber

Here at Clear Mountain Alpacas, we raise our alpacas for their luxurious fiber. Once reserved for Incan royalty, the soft fiber produced by our alpacas is harvested once each year during Spring shearing without causing any injury to the alpaca.

Alpaca fiber is a green, renewable resource that comes in twenty-two NATURAL colors - the most colors of any natural fiber.

Alpaca fiber is:

• As soft as cashmere

• Naturally insulating and therapeutic
  

• Water repellent

• Lanolin-free

Because alpaca fiber is lanolin-free, it is considered hypoallergenic and can be spun directly from the shorn fleece without scouring.

Like other natural fibers, alpaca fiber can be easily dyed to produce a rainbow of colors making alpaca fiber sought after by hand spinners and fiber artists throughout the world.

Alpacas are shorn once a year, typically in the month of May. Then, the fleece is skirted and sorted. Decisions can then be made as to what products can be made from it.