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What specialist equipment? Incas managed to make fabric out of the wool without advanced equipment. I think garments are still made (by hand) from the wool arou
by dan-robertson 3y ago
What specialist equipment? Incas managed to make fabric out of the wool without advanced equipment. I think garments are still made (by hand) from the wool around the regions where the animals live, though I assume they aren’t as consistent as what you get from Loro Piana, and maybe they aren’t exported (if I remember correctly, this is to try to allow those goods to be used by locals in traditional ways, rather than being made for export, though I’m not confident in that claim)
- alexchamberlain 3y agoIn the article, it states that the fibers are shorter and thinner (13 microns) than other wools, which gives them the desirable properties, but also makes them very hard to spin into a wool. Admittedly, I had assumed spinning by hand wouldn't scale to the level that the comment above intended.