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
dimend51
July 27th, 2010 at 8:28 AM
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!
Halalsilks
August 15th, 2010 at 11:38 AM
thanks so much for this video!!! I LOVE ALPACA!!! Can you tell me if you would? clean Llama the same way?
smiles,
grace
Beadgarden
September 30th, 2010 at 8:39 AM
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.
chocolatefountainpro
October 25th, 2010 at 11:09 PM
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.
pateho
January 9th, 2011 at 7:26 PM
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!
swimmingfish5
April 27th, 2011 at 3:03 AM
Your? welcome!
OdensAlpacas
May 13th, 2011 at 2:25 PM
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.
Boogiethrash
July 5th, 2011 at 1:08 AM
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
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