The price of raw alpaca fleece ranges from $1.50 to $3.50 per ounce for prime quality blanket, which is the fleece that circles the animal's torso. About 4 or 5 pounds might come off an adult alpaca.

The fleece still fills a tiny niche in an already-small luxury fiber market. About 46 percent of textiles sold worldwide last year were polyester, 39 percent were cotton and 2 percent wool ...

JOHN J. TEAL, JR., is an authority on the arctic, where his attention has been drawn to the musk ox, that huge docile animal with its silken fleece which has been hunted almost to extinction.

Golden fleece. Naomi West 09 December 2006 • 12:01am . ... If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.' ...