alpaca

Working with Alpaca and Llama Fibre

June 5, 2008

May 15th, Meeting Program: Gretchen Hoff, who raises alpacas and llamas on her farm in Maple Ridge, covered the process from harvesting to spinning their hair. Susan Forsyth (www.woolcombs.com) demonstrated how to comb the hair to separate out the coarse hair from the more desirable soft fine hairs and showed several lovely garments made from [...]

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Program Report – May 15, 2008

May 15, 2008

Our guest was Gretchen Hoff, social worker and knitter as well as llama and alpaca farmer and the designer/seamstress known as the Scattered Gardener. She was ably assisted by her friend Susan Forsyth who, along with her husband Andrew, makes woolcombs and other spinners’ tools. Gretchen very kindly handed out samples of her dehaired llama, [...]

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