Baby Alpaca is a quality label that refers to wool of exceptional softness. On a first glance it might sound cruel to shear newborn animals. However, Baby Alpaca wool is not from a newborn Alpaca, it just refers to a special quality of fibres. The wool must be shorn from a special area on the neck and chest area of an alpaca or a specific section of the back, where this highly dense and soft wool grows.

The amazing quality of our Baby Alpaca wool stems for the very fine fibres, which have diameters of only 19 - 23 microns (in comparison average human hair is about 70 - 180 microns). Only these very fine fibres are classified with the category Baby Alpaca which is one of the finest wools in all the animal world, much finer than average sheep wool, which is up to 50 microns thick and even finer than mohair wool, which is up to 30 microns thick.

Our “100% Baby Alpaca” wool is an alternative even for people who suffer from irritation by sheep wool. Alpaca fibres are much softer and have fewer micro scales on the fibres than sheep wool. As a result, to feel as soft as alpaca fibres, sheep fibres would need to be 10-30% thinner than alpaca fibres. This is because of the higher flexibility of alpaca hair. In addition, merino wool contains up to 15% grease (lanolin). Alpaca hair instead contains much less grease (2%), and it is widely cited that the chemical structure differs from sheep’s lanolin, resulting in a product that with its soft touch is suitable even for many people who feel skin irritations by sheep wool.

Alpaca wool is unique amongst all wool products due to its amazing qualities. These derive from the harsh and rapidly changing weather conditions in the Peruvian Andes and natural evolution has perfected the qualities of alpaca wool over millennia to protect the animals against blazing sun, extreme cold, fog and rain at the same time. Our alpaca wool warm, soft, thin, natural, renewable, and sustainable. It is sourced from local farmers and 100% biodegradable and could even be composted.