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alpaca fibre

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production by alpaca

In alpaca
Alpaca fibre is sometimes combined with other fibres to make dress and lightweight suit fabrics and is also woven as a pile fabric used both for coating and as a lining for outerwear. Peru is the leading producer of the fleece, most of it being…
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source of wool

In wool
animal fibre forming the protective covering, or fleece, of sheep or of other hairy mammals, such as goats and camels. Prehistoric man, clothing himself with sheepskins, eventually learned to make yarn and fabric from their fibre covering. Selective sheep breeding eliminated most of the long,…
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specialty hair fibre

In specialty hair fibre
llama, alpaca, and vicuña (q.q.v.) fibres, all from members of the genus Lama.
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