Alpaca Blend

Alpaca 40% / wool 60%. Long guard hairs, heavy drape, visible halo.

USD 168

Fibre diameter: 25 μm
Ply: 2
Yarn count: 2/18 Nm
Knit gauge: 9 gg

Composizione / Composition

Lana / Wool60%
Alpaca / Alpaca40%

Where it comes from

Alpaca fibre from Peru, wool from Australia, spun in Peru

Knitted and made up in Portugal

Origin is stated per batch and repeated on the label sewn into the piece.

Size — measurements are in the table below

Model is 183 cm and wears size M.

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Price in US dollars (USD). Free standard shipping over USD 149, otherwise USD 12.

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Covered by the 2-year legal guarantee of conformity, claimed from us. What that covers.

Contains animal fibre. If you have an allergy to wool or animal hair, do not buy this piece.

Warmer than its weight, and it sheds

Alpaca blend

What it gives you: Warm out of proportion to its weight
What it costs you: Sheds, mats, and you will feel the guard hairs

Compare it against the other yarns

Alpaca is hollow-cored, so it insulates out of proportion to how much it weighs, and it drapes rather than springs.

It sheds fibre for the first several wears. On dark trousers you will see it. At 25 μm you will also feel the guard hairs on bare skin.

Four rows, on every wool piece we sell

What this yarn will do that you did not ask for.

A piece with any of these four rows missing cannot be listed. That rule is enforced in the build, not left to whoever writes the copy.

Will it pill?Pilling: The long halo mats and pills wherever a strap or a seatbelt rubs. We grade this yarn 2–3 after 2,000 rubs (Martindale, ISO 12945-2). It also sheds loose fibre for the first several wears.
Will it itch?Itch: Mean fibre diameter 25 μm. Above roughly 23 μm most people feel wool on bare skin, and alpaca guard hairs are stiffer than merino at the same diameter. Assume you will feel this one.
What if I wash it wrong?Felting: Heat and agitation felt wool, and felting cannot be undone. Wool cycle, 30 °C maximum, dried flat. A 60 °C machine wash will shrink this permanently, and that is wear caused by washing, not a defect in the garment.
Will moths eat it?Moths: Wool is a protein fibre and clothes moths eat it. Store it clean — moths are drawn to skin oils and food traces, not to wool itself — sealed in a bag or box, off the floor, and never pressed flat under weight for a whole season.

Pilling grade

2–3

5 is unchanged, 1 is heavily pilled.

Test method

Martindale abrasion, 2,000 rubs, assessed to ISO 12945-2

Mean fibre diameter 25 μm. Where that sits against every other yarn.

Care

The conditions, not the icons.

Hand wash, 30 °C, dry flat. Expect shedding early on.

washing it hotter than this is not covered — and here is exactly why

Who pays when a sweater is felted

Maximum wash temperature: 30 °CHand wash only. A machine will agitate this into felt.
Machine wool cycle: Not allowedWash it by hand in still water instead.
Drying: Dry flatHanging a wet shaped knit stretches the body and the shoulders.
Tumble dryer: NeverHeat plus tumbling is the fastest way to felt a wool garment.
Iron: 110 °C maximumPress and lift. Sliding an iron across knitting flattens the stitch.

Care symbols: wool cycle at 30 degrees, do not tumble dry, dry flat, iron at 110 degrees maximum

Measured, every size

Centimetres, taken flat, after washing.

These are garment measurements, not body measurements. Lay a piece you already like on a table, measure it the same way, and compare. There is no one-size option on this site.

The model is 183 cm tall and wears size M.