Alpaca fleece, Wool Expo, Armidale, NSW

Yarn spun from alpaca wool.

Alpaca scarf. Cambridge Food, Garden and Produce Festival, England

Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. It is light or heavy in weight,
depending on how it is spun. It is a soft, durable, luxurious [1] and silky natural fiber. While similar
to sheep’s wool, it is warmer, not prickly, and has no lanolin, which makes
it hypoallergenic.[1][2] Alpaca fiber is naturally water-repellent and difficult to
ignite.[3] Huacaya, an alpaca that grows soft spongy fiber, has natural crimp, thus making a
naturally elastic yarn well-suited for knitting. Suri has no crimp and thus is a better fit for woven
goods. The designer Armani has used Suri alpaca to fashion men's and women's suits.[4] Alpaca
fleece is made into various products, from very simple and inexpensive garments made by the
indigenous communities to sophisticated, industrially made and expensive products such as
suits. In the United States, groups of smaller alpaca breeders have banded together to create
"fiber co-ops," to make the manufacture of alpaca fiber products less expensive.
The preparing, carding, spinning, weaving and finishing process of alpaca is very similar to the
process used for wool.
Angora hair or Angora fibre refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora rabbit. While their
names are similar, Angora fibre is distinct from mohair, which comes from the Angora goat.

Cashmere scarves

Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a luxury fiber obtained from cashmere
goats and other types of goat. The word cashmere is an old spelling of Kashmir, the
geographical region of Pakistan and India.

Also known as Endi or Errandi, Eri is a multivoltine silk spun from open-ended cocoons, unlike
other varieties of silk.
Tasar is produced from larvae of several species of silkworms belonging to the moth
genus Antheraea,

The bulk of the commercial silk produced in the world comes from this variety and often silk
generally refers to mulberry silk.