Description
Alpaca Bats for Spinning
Alpaca Bats for Spinning 50g is a natural, hypoallergenic alpaca fiber that has been carefully washed, picked, carded, and dizzed. It contains virtually no vegetable matter and can be spun straight from shearing as it lacks any lanolin content. We have taken care to remove any unwanted bits of VM, ensuring a low micron, next to skin quality. Please note that being natural and undyed, slight variations in colour, fiber length, and lustre may occur. Lighter colors are suitable for overdyeing.
50g – Select your colour on the colour wheel in the product galley! Select whether you want huacaya (fluffy) or suri (silky) – refer to our pages for more information on the difference if you’re not sure, https://verlorevallei.com/all-about-alpaca/ or contact us https://verlorevallei.com/contact/!
Follow us on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Fibrewitch to stay up to date with our latest art yarns, fibre specials, bats and rolag packs! Many of which never make it to the website! What’s more, you will get a heads-up when new Majacraft stocks are about to arrive in South Africa, so you can have first dibs! Stock seldom makes it on to the website! We are also working on ‘How-to videos’ on numerous fibre related subjects and life on the farm, which will be posted on Facebook first, unless you follow us on YouTube already, in which case you will be notified. http://www.youtube.com/@VVAFibrecrafts
You can also join our Whatsapp group, where special fibre blend drops or VVA You Tube videos will be announced from time to time – https://chat.whatsapp.com/FWE0y6MTj0uEekmFSm3g6t
We usually have the following natural colours in stock, as we have animals in all these colours: Natural White, Light Fawn, Medium Fawn, Dark Fawn, Light Brown, Medium Brown, Dark Brown, Black, light Silver Grey, Medium Silver Grey, Dark Silver Grey, Light Rose Grey, Medium Rose Grey, Dark Rose Grey.
You can also opt for a Mini 4-pack, or a 6-pack of different colours! These colours will be randomly selected by us, and may include dyed alpaca too.
Alpaca Bats for Spinning are beautiful lofty bats ready for spinning. Natural coloured alpaca from our Huacaya or Suri Alpacas on our farm. The lovely Premium fibre is ready for you to create whatever beautiful item your imagination has in mind! And if you really feel adventurous, and you want to try your hand at spinning a lovely blended bat, why don’t you head on over to our blended section to check stock, or pop on over to our FB page to see what’s new! Link above!
We also make art bat blends consisting of a variety of fibres and different colours, both natural colours and dyed colours. If you are interested in blended bats, take a look at what’s available under the art bats and rolags. A section for dyed fibre will be added.
We are always open to suggestions, and happy to help with custom orders. We also stock fibre of other sheep breeds that are sourced from the UK from time to time.
Please note, if you opt for suri alpaca bats, this is made of a blend of suri with 20% huacaya to ensure the bats don’t fall apart, as the silkiness of suri on it’s own doesn’t lend itself to 100% suri bats. The blend however, really makes this spinning experience out of this world!
As all monitors show colours differently, the colours may appear slightly different than what you see on your screen. Should a colour not be in stock, we will replace it with a colour that will be the closest match to the colour ordered.
Due to the nature and free spirit of our animals – they just LOVE rolling around in the dust or grass, and dipping in the river – there might still be tiny flecks of vegetable matter in the fibre which will come out with further processing.
Alpaca … warmer than wool, softer than cashmere!
