NEARLY three centuries ago merchant adventurers first noticed mysterious bundles of gossamer tumbling across the tundra, small fibrous clouds blown by the summer arctic winds, sometimes catching on ...

Still, exports are booming. About 3,863 tons of alpaca, vicuna and llama fleece were sold in 2006, the last year for which figures were available — mostly to Italy, the U.K. and China, as ready-made ...

Spring and summer means shearing-time on Ohio's 983 alpaca farms. As the state with the highest number of alpacas -- about 18,000 of the animals live here -- that means a lot of alpaca fleece coming ...

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