Baby Alpaca Shawl
Anything made of baby alpaca fiber let it be a baby alpaca shawl or a baby alpaca scarf, is going to be the best piece in your wardrobe. Baby alpaca fiber is usually slightly higher priced, but that is because it is a slightly higher demanded commodity. An Alpaca cannot be a baby for ever so there is always a limited quantity available.
Your baby alpaca shawl will be extremely soft and fine, more so than a adult alpaca shawl and much more so than a standard wool shawl. Infant alpacas are actually called crias. They are often the best part of an alpaca farmers work, watching the cria grow up over time. But it is also a time bittersweet time as the end product of an exceptional baby alpaca shawl will no longer carry the same beauty as the shavings change over to the adult fiber. No doubt alpaca fiber is much better that sheep’s wool, but the baby alpaca shawl fiber is superior even to that.
Yarn that can be used in a baby alpaca shawl can be had for roughly 9 dollars US for a 110 yard length. Common colors include dark grey, white, fawn, dark rose gray, medium rose gray, light rose gray and silver gray. Those are just the natural colors keep in mind and it is not all of the natural colors either. There are many more completely natural child alpaca colors. A lot of times with breeding it is a grand surprise as to what color combinations will come to be when a baby alpaca comes into the world.
If you are looking for a large color selection there are many farms and factories, both here in the states and in Peru that die the fibers for baby alpaca shawls so you can have pretty much any color combination you can think of.