Description
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The ALPAKKA ULL It is a mixture of alpaca and wool. This gives the yarn the softness and insulating properties of the alpaca fiber, the wool ensures lightness and elasticity. Both alpaca and wool have good heat regulating properties.
Material
65% alpaca (from Peru and Bolivia) 35% merino wool (from Australia and Uruguay)
CA. 100 METER PRO 50 GRAMM
Knitting needles, size 3½-5
Gauge: 22-19 M = 10 CM
Care: 30 degrees in the wool washing program
The alpaca wool comes from Peru, Sandnes Garn is happy to say that they got to know many growers there personally. The alpacas live freely and are sheared once a year. From an ethical point of view, the Sanndes yarn alpaca wool is one of the safest wool products ever.
Merino wool comes from Uruguay and Australia. Sandnes Garn emphasizes that they expressly reject practices such as mulesing (as we do at Wolle + Staune). The wool suppliers from Australia confirm that they supply mulesing-free wool. But Sandne’s yarn goes one step further and calls for the introduction of third-party certification requirements for mulesing-free wool.
Sandnes Garn also imports significant quantities of very fine wool from Uruguay, where mulesing does not occur in the first place.
