Alpaca Fleece Scouring and Carding

A chestnut alpaca fleece drying

I’m privileged once again to have some alpaca fiber to process into yarn! It’s very exciting because it’s been over 5 years since I last had a whole fleece. I washed the chestnut alpaca fleece on Friday and have started carding it.

Doffing the batt

alpaca on a carding paddle

carding the Alpaca

fluffing the Alpaca for carding

The chestnut alpaca fleece fits!

Stuffing the Alpaca fleece into this zipper bag.

It took about 20 minutes to run up 2 batts rea

batts ready to spin

batt off the carder

folded batt

rolled batt

I washed the dark brown alpaca fleece today. It took quite awhile because this particular creature had a penchant for rolling around in hay, straw, and cockle burrs! It’s not as fine as the chestnut, but will card up nicely.

Cockle burr in the washed fleece.

This dark brown fleece took 3 racks to lay out for drying.

What are you waiting for? Get busy and do something!

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