Sol Alpaca makes winter, comfy

Sol Alpaca makes winter, comfy

WHY ALPACA FIBER IS A MUST FOR THIS UPCOMING COLD SEASON:

With the cold season around the corner, Alpaca fiber is our greatest friend. Warm, soft, and robust, it will comfort you and make the blistering cold of winter days more bearable. Discover this fiber's numerous qualities and why it should be your go-to.

 

A HIGH-QUALITY FIBRE
This precious fiber has been appreciated for thousands of years because it is lightweight, warm, and versatile, and has many other properties. A “gift from the gods”, as they called it, was reserved for royalty only. Today, the craze for this high-end material continues across Peru and beyond!
Over time, the art of working this fiber has been perfected. Gathered by thousands of breeding families in the Andes, it is sorted manually by hundreds of master craftswomen who follow ancestral techniques, obtaining a great variety of thicknesses and colors. At SOL ALPACA, we use only the softest, most refined fiber for all our collections: Baby Alpaca, Baby Suri, and Super Baby Alpaca.
  

 

 

IDEAL FOR COLD WEATHER

Is lightweight and luxurious in both look and feel, it allows you to keep warm without the heavy feeling of a thick layer. Alpaca fiber is a great thermal insulator, keeps the warmth in and the cold out. This cold season, wrap yourself in the luxury of our elegant coats, cozy sweaters, and decorative throws made with the finest fibers of the Andes. 

 

 

KNOWN FOR ITS RADIANCE

Alpaca wool has about thirty natural colors (thirty-two to be precise). We also like the luster and natural shine of our friendly camelid’s coat, which lends a beautiful appearance and a sublime texture even after it’s been dyed.

 

 

A GREEN ALTERNATIVE

Raised in the wild, the alpaca produces very few greenhouse gases (it eats very little and its digestion is very efficient) and does not uproot the plants it feeds on. It does not damage the ground it walks on, because the bottom of its hooves has soft pads. Its fiber is also eco-friendly since it doesn't require chemical treatment and even less bleaching.

 

 

IT’S UNPARALLELED

Let's compare: alpaca vs sheep and cashmere.

Unlike sheep, the coat of an alpaca does not contain oil (the fatty substance secreted by the skin of the sheep that mixes with its wool), so it loses very little weight in the wash during its transformation, which makes it up to three times stronger and seven times warmer than sheep wool.

Let's move on to cashmere now. As we all know, it is a relatively expensive fabric that’s delicate to maintain. For the same quality, alpaca clothing is more accessible and washable. They are also more resistant to wear and tear over time and do not break or pill.

Enjoy pieces that embody warm traditional style with a modern twist. Now, we’d like to share this gift with you.

 

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