Alpaca fibre has potential uses in the textile and fashion industries as a luxurious fibre for high-end garments. For such applications, the alpaca fleece first needs to be processed to produce a clean, high quality, uniformly fine fibre for products such as roving and yarn. Prior to mechanically processing in the mills, the fleeces were cleaned, washed and dried for further studies. In this applied research, alpaca fleeces were processed using modified Belfast Mini-mills fibre processing equipment. The alpaca fibre was processed to roving through a series of five machines to produce fine, clean, and uniform fibre products required for textile and related industries.
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