Alpaca Silk - Andes Snow (01)

Alpaca Silk is an extraordinarily fabulous yarn from Peru. The silky-smooth silk adds a slightly shiny look to the yarn and combined with the long, warm alpaca-fibers, it makes the yarn extra durable. Silk Alpaca is a dream to wear and it’s perfect for warm and soft knitting for ...Alpaca Silk is an extraordinarily fabulous yarn from Peru.

The silky-smooth silk adds a slightly shiny look to the yarn and combined with the long, warm alpaca-fibers, it makes the yarn extra durable. Silk Alpaca is a dream to wear and it’s perfect for warm and soft knitting for all kinds of clothing such as shawls, hats, and other accessories. This lightweight yarn adds a beautiful drape to any project.

You can also combine the yarn with other yarns by adding e.g. a thread of Kid Silk into your work thus making your work extra lightweight. Alpaca Silk is a fabulous luxury on your needles, so enjoy it! NB! As you may know from many other types of textiles, yarn may contain excess color.

The repeated rubbing from working with the yarn can, unfortunately, result in color transferring from some darker colors and black. But that doesn’t mean that you can't knit a striped sweater. Alpaca Silk is exclusively dyed with colors and fixatives from European brands that follow the rules and regulations set by the EU.

Because EU-approved agents are used exclusively to dye the yarn, it can be hard to achieve a good color fastness in fabrics like silk.