About Angel Touch Alpaca

For over 8,000 years, the graceful Andean alpaca has dominated the highest mountains of the Andes, grazing on grassy pastures over 4,000 meters above sea level. With their close relatives, the vicuna, llama and guanaco, these animals provide the finest, warmest, and most luxurious textile fibers to weavers and knitters in one of the most difficult and delicate environments of the earth.

Hand sorting these natural colours gives employment to dozens of women highly skilled in visual and tactile recognition of beautiful alpaca fibers, spun in a small mill in Peru.

Support the traditional Andean pastoralists by selecting this Skal certified organic, fairly traded Angel Touch sport-weight, hand-knitting yarn.

Stitchville Alpaca is now available!

Stitchville Alpaca is produced by a Peruvian co-operative which has been working for over a quarter of a century with over 9000 rural artisans to combat poverty. The alpaca wool is locally sourced, hand spun and contains no dyes. The group was the first southern member of the International Fair Trade Association (IFAT).

Why is Stitchville Alpaca individually priced?

Stitchville Alpaca is delivered to us in huge skeins. We wind these skeins into convenient centre pull balls, and whilst doing so we are very attentive to the yarn's natural flow. We would therefore not necessarily cut yarn when we have wound 50gm into a ball, but instead we would cut where a natural interruption (i.e. a knot) occurs. The prices are calculated on per gm basis. We take care to list yarns of any particular colour in one lot/skein at a time, so you don't have to worry about shade discrepancies.