Hollister Free Lance – Dorrance holds a class on spinning and knitting every third Saturday of the month to show people how to use the alpaca wool. Helping Hands is a weekly feature of the Free Lance that focuses on contributions made by individual volunteers in our

A big day out
News.com.au – Traditional clothing will be on show and available to buy, as well as saddlery, leather bags and belts, moleskin jeans, hats, handmade wooden photo frames, clothes and accessories made from alpaca wool, plus tasty food products and trinkets such as

Alpaca trunk
Sunday Herald – The nights are chilly (hot water’ in this part of the world is a very fluid description) with crystal-bright stars on glinting water and layers of alpaca wool blankets at the cosy guest house, Inti Kala. The next morning’s challenge is the trek to

Detroit Free Press – The Maybees held the Michigan alpaca show on their Ortonville farm for the first few years, but in 2005, after hosting 128 alpacas and their owners, “it got to be a mess,” Maybee said, so they moved the event to Springfield Oaks. This year’s show will
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Alpaca lovers raise the cute critters for yarn
Everett Herald – The Herald was the impetus for Schmitt to visit an alpaca show in 1999. A cute picture in the newspaper prompted her to check out the program. “I was totally smitten,” Schmitt said. “I plunged headlong into an intensive quest for information. My
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Carroll County Times – Alpaca invasion It’s a competition of the best of the best – alpacas that is – at the second annual Maryland Alpaca Show and Sale Saturday and Sunday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. Gentle alpacas (small cousins to the llama and from
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank You
PRWeb – Alpaca Fashion Show Brings Top Designs from Peru ‘Alpaca Elegance,’ an extraordinary, elegant fashion show experience to benefit a children’s handloom weaving project in Cochaccasa, Huancavelica, Peru, is scheduled for 6 p.m. Saturday, October 8 in
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Gaucho Glam
Boston Globe – South American style comes to the South End with handcrafted candlesticks made from cow bone or woven leather and shiny alpaca “silver,” actually an alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc. The candlesticks ($249 per pair) from Argentina are sold at Diseno
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