Alpaca fiber comes in 2 varieties suri and huacaya. Huacaya reminds me of a lanolin-free, super-soft sheep fleece. Suri reminds me of supersoft mohair or just washed soft silky hair. Washed Suri Fiber Alpaca is very soft and silky it has no lanolin but can be very dusty as alpacas like to take dust baths. […]
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Mohair really does take dye very well. Here are a few examples of wool dyed and mohair dyed in the same dye bath. Mohair in the left , Wool on the right. I’ve also found it blends really well with other fibers. Spinning 100% mohair is fun depending preparation can have different results. Mohair top […]
Mohair is fabric or yarn made from the hair or wool(sometimes as it’s called) of the Angora goat. Mohair has scales like wool but they are not fully developed so they don’t felt exactly like wool does. I’ve notice that the stitches in the wool mohair blend are still perceptible. The stitches in the 100% wool blend have disappeared. There can be a […]
Cashmere dyes beautfully. It is a matt coloring as there seems little shine on cashmere. It’s so incredibley soft that I don’t think it matters. Here is what it did when I carded it. I admit I’m pretty new at carding cashmere. I’m doing more research to see if I can card it with other […]
The mission at The Fiber ofMy Being is to educate and inspire people to support my philosophy. I want to be able to help as many fiber animals as possible. My philosophy is that “we have engineered many of our domesticated species that they cannot live without us, therefore we are responsible for them.” That being said the mission of […]
I know I’ve talked about clipping and plucking. I’ve told you about my Bunnies. Now, I’m going to share with you what to do with all that fibery goodness. The a wonderful thing about angora fiber is that you can just spin it. That’s right no processing needed you can just spin it. There is […]
Continue reading about OH THE FIBER!!!!- Angora Fiber part 2
Angora is the fiber clipped or plucked off an Angora Rabbit. There is usually guardhair and underwool. The softness is determined by the diameter of the fiber , measured in microns. The micron count of angora is around 12-16 microns. For contrast merino wool ranges from 18-25 and a human hair is around 60 microns. […]
Right now the farm is home to 11 rabbits. I thought I would introduce to our fuzzy faced members. The oldest members of my Farm are Little Girl(LG), Blue , and Kali. Little Girl is a tort english-french mix as far as I can tell, she has no pedigree. Her personality is fiesty yet […]
There is some controversy about where angora rabbits originate from, the common theory is that they came from Turkey in the 18th century to France. They were originally just called angora woolers. Now there are 4 different breeds recognized by the American Rabbit Breeders Association. The English Angora, French Angora, Giant Angora, and Satin Angora. The German […]
I have 4 goats on the farm now. I received them along with my dear Lorenzo I wrote about in last weeks newsletter. They are all female. They produe cashmere. Cashmere goats in the U.S. are quiet large but my ladies are little, they also seem to have the markings of Nigerian dwarf goats. I usually […]
