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Welcome to Fibre Heaven!

If you love fibre and letting your creativity blossom, spinning dreams and weaving magic with your fingers, you’ve just arrived at a heavenly haven!

Majacraft – All you need to spin your dreams!

We are proud to let you know we are the new sole Majacraft dealer in South Africa.

The official launch date is set for 1 June 2024. In time, we will keep a full inventory of all Majacraft items on hand, but for the time being, there is bound to be some delays with stocking up and gauging proper stock levels, not to mention wading our way through shipping and customs delays.

As we continue setting up our product list, please browse the official Majacraft website and contact us with whatever your needs may be!

THE CHERRY ON THE CAKE !!!

ANY ORDERS PLACED AND PAID IN FULL BEFORE 1 JUNE 2024 WILL BE ENTITLED TO A WHOPPING 10% LAUNCHING DISCOUNT!

Fibre

We stock almost every colour of natural coloured alpaca fibre, raised right here on our farm, both huacaya – teddybear-like heavenly clouds of fluff, and Suri, silky-smooth flowing fountains of fibre.

And depending on availability, which fluctuate throughout the year – shearing season being October in our corner of the universe – that’s available untreated, or as washed, hand-carded cloud, roving, hand-combed top – the cream of the crop, or in blends, bats and rollags, as well as HAND SPUN yarns, in lace weight, sock weight, DK yarn, bulky and in various art-yarns, like beehives or boucles.

If colour is what you need, we do overdyeing of the lighter natural colours to create some truly spectacular yarns.

RAW FIBRE has not been washed or processed, and comes directly from the Huacaya or Suri Alpacas on our farm. It has however been tumbled and VM removed. The lovely Premium fibre is ready for you to create whatever beautiful item your imagination has in mind!

Due to the nature and free spirit of our animals – they just LOVE rolling around in the dust or grass, and untill recently when we lost one of our valuable Suri girls to a crockodile – dipping in the river – there will be bits of vegetable matter in the fibre which will come out with further processing.

Our Premium-quality fibre is luxurious and soft. Sold in 50g packages. Please note, alpaca is light as air, so 50g of fibre is a LOT!

If WASHED, the fibre has been tumbled, VM (vegetable matter) removed, and prewashed, meaning it has been soaked in soapy water and rinsed multiple times, removing the majority of the dust. Your final project should always be washed again.

Your order will be processed as soon as payment is confirmed. Washed fibres are allowed to dry naturally, so it may take a day or more before it will be dry enough to be processed into the final product. Spinning will also take a few days, depending on the size of your order, and the type of yarn.

Premium alpaca fibre (also called Baby Alpaca) with microns between 20 and 23 can be used for next-to-skin garments. We have limited quantities of very low-micron Royal alpaca (micron below 20) available in 30g packages, but please note, as Royal alpaca is as light as a feather, the volumes of these packages are quite surprising and goes a very long way!

We sometimes have courser leg fibres available, perfect for stuffing of toys and comfy cushions, as well as making lovely comfortable and warm shoe-liners, and don’t forget dryer balls! We also use it for making corespun yarns in rug making. Nothing goes to waste! Our felted crochet cushion pads are absolute winners!

The lighter colours can be readily overdyed, thus offering a rainbow of colours in every depth of shade for fibre artists. Alpaca fibre can also be combined with other fine fibres like merino and other wools, cashmere, mohair, silk, and angora to achieve incredible blends. Contact us with your requirements, and we will be happy to accommodate your needs!

Due to all monitors showing 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.

Please note, as this is a natural fibre, and every alpaca’s fibre differs, even in the same fleece, there may be slight variations. This could differ in the depth of colour, to different coloured fibre strands.

In first-cut fleeces, also called Royal alpaca, there is one more point to consider – so-called ‘cria-tips’. Little felted nubs, like baby’s tangles, form at the very tip of the fleece. The finer the fleece, the greater the likelihood of these tips. It is quite simple to just pick it out as you process your fibre, or as you spin, and we take care to remove most of it in the processed products, but like VM, there may be some left.
It also presents itself as tiny flecks of different colouring at the tips – another indication of the fineness of your fleece. Usually, these disappear during washing and further processing.

Being infatuated with fibre, means we also stock other fibres, the bigger the range, the better. Right now, we are working on building up wool from a range of UK sheep breeds – some also classified as rare-breeds due to their limited geographic spread around the world. As we complete the breed studies, fibres of which we are convinced we couldn’t live without in our fibre heaven will be included in the shop. Obviously, South African karakul, mohair and merino are already on the list.

This will certainly include courser fibres too, perfect for spinning into weaving yarns and exceptionally strong warps for weaving too. All of these can be used in interior decor items, like rugs, runners, baskets, throws and cushions, or whatever you can dream up.

We also stock factory processed merino tops and roving, as well as spun yarns, both natural and dyed into a variety of delicious custom colours.

Do keep an eye out for our custom-blended bats and rolags, as well as one-of-a-kind art-yarns added from time to time!

Woven items will be added as special releases as and when available, but rarely make it to the stock-item stage – they are usually snatched up while still on the loom.

But that’s not all! As we are passionate about nature and all things natural, and quite fed-up with corporate control, passive ingestion of poisonous additives, and nutritional deficiencies caused by foodstuffs stripped of all real food value, not to mention that constant corporate drive to achieve ever greater profits at the cost of everything and everyone else, we decided to add another 3-pronged approach to our arsenal of being self-sustainable.

That includes natural soap making, food preservation to fill up our shelves instead of our freezers, and herbal teas to feed our spirit, body and minds – because herbs are just bursting with all those nutrients and minerals we have a hard time getting from our food! Our herbal tea blends are not only delicious, but they’re good for you too!

The intention is to add to our online range over time, but due to logistics, chances are not everything will make it into the online store right away.

Our shipping fee is specified without insurance, and subject to quote. Feel free to message us with any questions you may have.

Custom orders are welcome!

You dream it, we do it!