MATTHILDUR and ALPACA YARNS from Peru

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Because our love of the luxurious Suri and Royal alpaca yarns begins in the vast and majestic Andean mountains of Peru today we want to share some interesting facts about the Alpacas and how their fiber has been a constant, precious component of MATTHILDUR winter collections of luxury clothes since the beginning.The Suri alpaca are members of the camelid family and are so rare that they only comprise 10% of the world´s Alpaca population. This breed is part of the Peruvian bio-cultural heritage. Initiatives to prevent the extinction of the Suri Alpaca and protect their variety of natural color fibers has improved the livelihoods of the families that traditionally breed these camelids. Nowadays, the communities working with industrial enterprises are able to maintain their lifestyle and artisanal breeding practices as they prove to be more sustainable, while the fiber is