How Vicunas For Sale Started

| Friday, April 18, 2014
By Essie Osborn


There are a lot of expensive clothing available anywhere. Some are from different skins of animals and are warm to use. There are places in the world where these animal skins are found. One place that has improved because of this is Andes. This is where vicunas are habituating. This is also where fabric makers find vicunas for sale. You might be wondering what this creature is as it does not sound usual.

This animal is part of the camel family. It is also commonly known as camelidae which is related to the alpaca, llama and guanaco. The skin of this animal is covered with fine, long, soft and lustrous coat that has the colors of either a light cinnamon or pale white. People who takes out their skin can get approximately 85 to 550 grams or 3 to 20 ounces each one. Although vicuna fiber is resilient and strong, it is very sensitive to chemicals and is usually used in its natural color. Its very expensive fiber is usually made into fine coats, designer gowns and shawls and even bags. Let us check out what makes this cloth extremely expensive.

It is known to be silky and its fleece are dense. Once it has already been prepared to be something useful to humans it can help you feel comfortable even to extreme coldness or sudden weather and temperature changes. It is by far the smallest of all in the family of camels with a height of 90 centimeters and a weight of only 50 kilograms.

Just like usual wild animals, they feed themselves with only grasses. Because they are part of the family of camels, they too do not need water. Whenever they feel the need to transfer from one place to another, they form groups of females with one male as their lookout. Whenever there is a baby born as well, the mother makes sure that their babies stay with them for at least 10 months before they may already move along on their own.

You might think that the title of this animal skin as the most expensive and rarest cloth is good. Well, that statement is true but has a bad side as well. They are being hunted and because of that, they are now part of our endangered species.

This sure costs a fortune. Here are some more mind foods for you to know more about why it is considered the most expensive. There are also more information on how this thing started to become a fabric and who the first people are to wear it.

It has be named as the fabric of the Gods by the Inca tribe. Meaning, only members of the royal family can wear such clothing. Then, when the Spaniards took over Inca, it was then named as the silk of the New World.

From having over a million of vicunas during the Inca tribe times, it rapidly dropped to over 5 thousand when the Spaniards took control of everything. This happened when they started to introduce the fine fabric to the world. Demands of having such from different countries increase resulting to frequent hunting.

The hunting only stopped when an order coming from the United Nations was declared. They were asking all vicuna hunters to stop. Then reproduction of the animal then increased up to 160 thousand.




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