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ALPACA HAIR [4 records]

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Record 1 2018-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
CONT

The term "fur fiber" may be used to describe the hair or fur fiber or mixtures thereof of any animal or animals other than the sheep, lamb, Angora goat, Cashmere goat, camel, alpaca, llama and vicuna.

CONT

... fur fibers include those [coverings] obtained from animals more often used for their fur-producing value, such as mink, rabbit, beaver and muskrat.

Key term(s)
  • fur fibre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Filature (Textiles)
OBS

Bœuf ou vache : Les poils de ces animaux sont utilisés pour la fabrication de certains tapis et de la thibaude (doublure des tapis). [...] Castor : Poil de castor [...] Son pelage brun roux, très fin et soyeux [...] mélangé à d'autres textiles, il est utilisé en bonneterie et en tissage. [...] Loutre : Poil de loutre : [...] non utilisable en pelleterie, est employé en filature mélangé à d'autres textiles.

Key term(s)
  • fibre de poil d'animaux

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
DEF

Animal fibers : Fibers of animal origin such as wool, alpaca, camel hair, and silk.

CONT

Vicuna is the softest coat cloth in the world. The amount of coarse hair to be separated from the soft fibers is negligible and yields the finest animal fiber in the world.

Key term(s)
  • animal fibers
  • animal fibres

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
DEF

Les fibres animales sont de deux espèces : 1) les poils constituant la toison de certains mammifères (mouton, chèvre, chameau, lama, alpaga, vigogne, lapin angora, etc.); 2) les soies qui sont filées des insectes (bombyx du mûrier, soies sauvages, etc.).

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wool Industry
DEF

Fine, long woolly hair of the alpaca, a South American goat-like animal.

OBS

[Alpaca] is superior to ordinary qualities of sheep’s wool.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie lainière
DEF

Laine de cet animal [l'alpaca].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria lanera
DEF

Tejido elaborado con [la] lana [de la alpaca], más fina, larga y brillante que la de la llama común.

CONT

Con los mejores hilados de alpaca se elaboran telas muy ligeras, de aspecto sedoso, especiales para trajes de verano.

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Record 4 2000-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wool Industry
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
DEF

alpaca fiber: The fleece of an alpaca.

DEF

Alpaca : Fine, long woolly hair of the alpaca, a South American goat-like animal. It is superior to ordinary qualities of sheep's wool.

CONT

Garments made from alpaca fiber were reserved for royalty... In the mid 1800's Sir Titus Salt, a woolen manufacturer from Bradford, England, discovered the wonderful qualities of alpaca fiber. Against his father's advice he accepted a consignment of "alpaca hair" and proceeded to spin and weave it into beautiful alpaca fabric and alpaca products.

CONT

The rarity of alpaca is its only limitation. The world produces less alpaca fiber than almost any other fiber type ... The Incan kings recognized the alpaca’s unique qualities ... The alpaca provides fiber ... to create warm, colorful garments, soft to the touch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie lainière
  • Filature (Textiles)
DEF

Fibre d'origine animale. Poil provenant de l'alpaca (mot péruvien), ruminant voisin du lama et de la vigogne. Cette fibre très fine, douce et soyeuse sert pour la fabrication d'articles de luxe.

CONT

Le cas de la fibre d'alpaga : La collecte, la transformation et la commercialisation associative de la fibre d'alpaga est l'activité de la Central de Cooperativas Alpaqueras de Puno Ltda (CECOALP), fruit organisationnel du projet CECI-Alpaga.

Spanish

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