alpacas

About alpacas and raising alpacas. Their fleece is one of the softest in the world. Shrewd tradesmen of the past, finding that the fabric manufactured from alpaca wool was highly desired, many years ago gave the name to a far cheaper fabric, a material used for coat linings, umbrellas, and thin, warm-weather coats. This fleece is capable of being woven into fabrics of great beauty and comfort. Many of the silky, fluffy, knitted garments that command the highest prices for winter wear, and which are called by various names, such as "vicu a," "camel's hair," etc. About alpacas and raising alpacas.

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These animals, like their cousins, were probably domesticated by the early Peruvians from the wild guanaco, largest of the camels of the New World, which still exists in a wild state and is always of uniform coloration. About alpacas and raising alpacas. The fleece of these animals are extremely variegated. Since in the wild these animals required better and scarcer forage, short, tender grass and plenty of water, they frequented the most remote and lofty of the mountain pastures. In the past they were handled only when the fleece is removed, seldom saw any one except the peaceful shepherds, and were extremely shy of strangers, although not nearly as timid as its distant cousin the vicuna. About alpacas and raising alpacas.