I recently dyed some Suri Alpaca in 4 different colours. I got 200g of fleece back in 2015 from a lady in Gloucestershire who keeps Alpacas and this came from a Suri Alpaca called Butterscotch. I washed it on arrival and was left with 162g of fleece to prepare for spinning.
I did nothing with this alpaca fleece until recently, when I decided to split it into 4 amounts and dye each amount a different colour.
Over the past couple of days I have combed this Suri Alpaca so that it is ready to use when I need it. Each lot started out at 42-44g and it took me 90 minutes to comb each lot and each time I was left with just 15g of lovely hand combed top, except for the orange-brown one where I was left with 12g. It's not a lot but at least I did get something from this fairly old fleece that I had somehow overlooked for so long.
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