Alpaca Cloth

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1877

Among the thousands who wear alpaca cloth, very few know what it is made of. The alpaca goat is a species of the llama, whose home is in the mountain regions of Peru. It lives on the coarsest fare, the scanty herbage of the rocks, and has a beautiful wavy coat of light chestnut-brown wool, which is nearly a foot in length, very soft and elastic, and nearly as fine as that of a cashmere goat. This is sheared off and sent to England, where it is sorted, woven, dyed, singed, and turned into the market.