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Title: Shameless self promotion (EcuadorTreasures.ec)
Source: ecuadortreasures.ec
URL Source: http://ecuadortreasures.ec
Published: Aug 2, 2007
Author: Me
Post Date: 2007-08-02 22:30:42 by Pinguinite
Keywords: None
Views: 2237
Comments: 76

My new web site is online. If anyone's interested is stuff from Ecuador, there are some nice things down here and we'll ship it to you. We'll be expanding our inventory in the near future so what we have is a pretty good start, thanks in part to a wood carver/artisan here who's let us feature his inventory. We can do alpaca clothing, Panama hats (All Panama hats come from Ecuador as they are named for where us Euro-gringos discovered them). The wool jackets are very nice -- heavy and warm, as are the wraps. The lobster carving is especially cool. Just about everything would be a very nice gift item.

Anyway wish us luck and any questions, comments on improvements or things on our site are quite welcome! There is a lot more here than what we show so we might be able to get something strange if you ask, like smoking pipes, jewelry made from watermelon seeds, decorative swords made from sword fish snouts and things like that.

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Pinguinite  posted on  2007-08-02   22:42:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Can items be special ordered, Neil.....what I'm thinking is like the Sea Horse Set BUT not painted. Just the bare wood? For one thing, my bathroom is done in wood and these could be hung in there as a nice decorative touch. OR, I would prefer to paint to my own color scheme?

Would this hold true on some of the other items? I find the carved crabs interesting--and would think just plain unpainted or tinted ones would be most attractive.

I love the alpaca and wool things. I had a girlfriend in Montana whose father assisted missionaries in Peru each summer. He'd fly materials in that their church provided for the people. While he was there one year, he had an alpaca jacket made for my girlfriend. Pam always said it was so warm, and not so overly heavy, bulky or confining that she couldn't do her chores and stuff in it.

He also brought her home a wall hanging done with colored fibers from alpacas--I believe they used native dyes. It was beautiful--she hung in on the staircase landing wall.

rowdee  posted on  2007-08-03   13:50:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

While he was there one year, he had an alpaca jacket made for my girlfriend. Pam always said it was so warm, and not so overly heavy, bulky or confining that she couldn't do her chores and stuff in it.

Might interest you to know that the best alpaca wool is a very fine fiber underneath the main coat of the animal. It is analogous to the down feathers from geese, as opposed to the main outer protective feathers. Very nice stuff, the best in the world according to many in the wool industry. Except for , IIRC, Vicuna (sp) wool, but outrageously priced as the animals are not domesticated.

tom007  posted on  2007-08-03   22:56:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

LOL, tom.........I used to raise longwooled sheep, with crosses on merinos, as well as angora goats for mohair; and produced a monthly newsletter devoted to producers as well as fiber consumers. Did lots of articles on various fibers, i.e., llama, alpaca, dog==even knew of a Swedish lady who made jackets with dog hair--can't remember what breed she had--but super warm. Expensive, as she had to pick out the guard hairs for the downy undercoat.

I even had some of my angoras microned. One of the bucks I had actually microned equivalent to baby mohair. He was one little mohair making machine-- and only had sex on his mind. Horniest little bastard I've ever seen! LOL.

Some of the ladies I knew used rabbit fur.

We even did articles on guard animals, i.e, Great Pyrenees, llamas, donkeys--even heifers (beef cattle types) were good running with sheep.

Anyways, while I can't remember all the details on fineness, I believe cashmere fits in as probably the ultimate in microning.

I believe vicunas, guanacos, alpacas, and llamas are of the same animal family, i.e., camelids. Don't hold me to it, but those three are related, and I vaguely recall them being classified with camels.

rowdee  posted on  2007-08-03   23:15:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

believe vicunas, guanacos, alpacas, and llamas are of the same animal family, i.e., camelids. Don't hold me to it, but those three are related, and I vaguely recall them being classified with camels.

Count on it, that is correct.

As a wooly, can you share your thought on the cashimere being the "down" of the alpaca fur?

tom007  posted on  2007-08-03   23:47:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

If memory serves me well, cashmere is the fine, inner hair of angora crossed goats and/or naturally occuring in breeds/cross breds. At one time, I was contemplating getting some 'goats' and breeding my two mohair bucks to them to try to develop some cashmere bearing goats. They can be used for weed control, so there would have been a dual use of them.

I know I have tons of this sort of information stuck out in boxes in storage. I was doing that newsletter in the mid to late 80s.

I decided against the cashmere because of the lack of consistent purchasers. They wanted to argue too much between what they would call cashmere and what they wouldn't. They wanted to go beyond micro sizing.

It was enough that I was the mover and shaker behind organizing the Montana Mohair Producers Assn in order to develop a mohair market, transport system, and selling of excess livestock. I want to say cashmere micron is perhaps something like .12. My little mohair buck was something like .17 or .18. So you can see it was even a good bit finer than kid mohair which is one of the ultra fibers.

Again, this is all memory.

As to fibers, merino wool or rambouillet wool is supposed to be the finest of wools. And instead of micron count, they use crimp or something like that. I had a merino that had a count under that system of around 75. Very very soft. I raised Romney and cross breds for the long colored wool. It was woundrous and soft, but the count was something like 50 - 55.

More than the actual crimp or micron is how the fiber is processed....how the individual fibers are laid out for spinning and weaving textiles. Even a fine merino wool can 'itch' if the fabric has fibers lying the wrong way--it is in the combing process.

With all that said, I much preferred to raise the critters, have them shorn, clean the fleeces, and show them or sell them. I concentrated on handspinning markets, though I must say the wool buyer for the wool pool I was in told me he would buy every pound of wool I could raise that was like the fleeces from two of my merino/romney cross ewes. He preferred them over the columbia, rambouillet or merino straightbreds.

A lot of the spinning ladies didn't like working with really fine fibers--they generally have to add oil to them because they are dryer than wool.

Ag

rowdee  posted on  2007-08-04   0:45:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

cashmere is the fine, inner hair of angora crossed goats and/or naturally occuring in breeds/cross br

The good stuff. I had a sweater and wore it until it dissipated. Warm in the cold and breathing in the warm. Really the best material.

tom007  posted on  2007-08-04   1:15:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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One of the reasons cashmere is so costly is due to the 'guard hairs' that have to be removed from the fleece. I don't recall at the time I was interested that anyone had developed a sure fire way to separate them from the cashmere.

Its sort of like the black hair that gets into a sheep's fleece. It can ruin a whole run of fabric because it does not dye the same, does not lie the same, etc.

Its because of the core of the interior of the individual fibers, as I recall. Medullation? Well...anyways.

And just because you have a goat, say the momma, that has cashmere, doesn't mean that all of her offspring will have cashmere. :( So its the pits until you get a herd developed.

rowdee  posted on  2007-08-04 01:31:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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