Fiber Connection
 

The following Llama Directory members have llama wool to trade, barter, or sell and their information is listed below.  Members: To get listed below,  send me an email with your advertising blurb.  Go to contact me.

An example of a price index for llama wool pricing is listed below.  It is subject to change, depending on your personal market value.

Example: Raw llama fiber:  $1.50/ oz., or $20/ lb. 

If superior in quality and spotlessly clean, one might ask as much as $2.50/ oz., or $24/ lb.

Washed and carded into roving or batting:  100% llama:  $4.00/ oz., or $48/ lb.

Breeders listed below have llama fiber.  Please contact them.
Get ahead of the game now and ask for wool samples and let the breeder know how much wool you'd like to buy this spring.  

Northern Vermont Llama Co.
Waterville, Vermont
Lindsay Chandler
Email: northernvtllamaco@surfglobal.net
www.northernvermontllamaco.com
Phone: 802-644-2257

Posey Thisisit Llamas
Toms Brook, Virginia
Joyce & James Hall
Email: llamasjh@shentel.net
www.poseythisisitllamas.com
Phone: 540-436-3517
 

Micron Fiber Testing:

Yocom-McCall Testing Laboratories Inc.
 540 West Elk Place
 Denver, CO 80216-1823
 (303) 294-0582
 (303) 295-6944 Fax
 
ymccoll@ix.netcom.com
 
www.ymccoll.com
 

Resources to make knitted and felt projects from llama wool

Want to learn to felt? Check out this link 
http://www.textilelinks.com/felt/
Felting project links: http://www.outbackfibers.com/info/feltinginst.htm
                                     http://www.allfiberarts.com/cs/felting.htm 
 Learn to knit with these easy instructions:  http://www.craftown.com/knitlesson.htm
 
http://www.bhg.com/home/Knitting-Instructions.html

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