Author:
New England Alpaca Fiber Pool Inc.

Date of Publication:
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Publication:
New England Alpaca Fiber Pool Inc.

Excerpt:
Our goal is to keep fiber grading as straight forward as possible on the farmer’s end. Our system is designed to be simple to understand while identifying the areas of the alpaca with different levels of fineness and staple length. We ask that all farm’s submitting fiber keep it separated into the three basic grades, based on how it comes off during shearing. Fiber should be sheared, kept separate by shearing location, and quickly skirted to remove barn yard debris and short cuts under 1.5″ in staple length.

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