How to wash alpaca fleece

A tutorial on how to wash raw alpaca fleece, getting it ready for carding or to send to a fiber mill.

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• alpaca
• baby
• wool
• fleece
• farm
• barn
• sexy
• wonderful
• beautiful

[swimmingfish5]

Your welcome!

[Boogiethrash]

I have an Alpaca blanket I just received from a friend. How would I wash this? Dry clean,Woolite? Its not spun its the actual fur i guess? attached to a thin sheet on the back. Thanks

[OdensAlpacas]

Thanks for this amazing video. I watched the other night and proceeded to go grab some of my blanket fleece to wash. It worked beautifully. I have been scared to death to ruin my valuable fiber and thus ruin any potential profit.

[pateho]

This is fantastic. I have acquired the 'seconds' from an alpaca farm. I picked up a past hobby of felting and have been using wool roving etc. my alpaca friend gave me 5 bags of the 'seconds' saying that it would be great for felting! This is new to me, so I have been carding small amounts as I use it and 'felted it' after that. But I would rather clean it in large batches and then felt it because the barnyard smell is really getting to me! Thank you so much for your video!

[chocolatefountainpro]

Yes, you would clean llama, wool and alpaca the same way. Try to keep the wash water and rinse water close to the same temp. I found that Ajax dish washing soap works very well. Dawn is a bit too "soapy" and takes longer to rinse it out of the fleece.

[Beadgarden]

What I do is I fill 2 tubs/buckets at the same time with water the same temperature, 1 soapy, 1 plain water. That way they lose heat at the same rate and there is no shock moving the fibre from one tub to the next and the fibre doesn't get to cool while I fill the tub. You could do this with your double sink.

[Halalsilks]

thanks so much for this video!!! I LOVE ALPACA!!! Can you tell me if you would clean Llama the same way?

smiles,

grace

[dimend51]

Great video, I learned a lot. Are you sure you didn't just shave your dog, ha! ha! Love the dog. So when you rinse, you have to use the same or close to the same degrees as when you soaked them?

thx!

[tornadokid777]

Thank you for this very informative and enjoyable video.

My folks have started an alpaca farm and I will be involved with the fiber. I wasn't sure if I wanted to take this on, but your video has convinced me that I am going to love this. If you have any more videos please let me know. Sincerely and Respectfully, M

[acreswildalpacas]

Thanks for the good video!