Shear Quality: Shearing Alpacas in Rural Perú
Alpacas are renowned for their soft fleece, but few people know the intimate details of alpaca fleece harvesting like Adam Riley, a professional alpaca shearer with eight years of experience in both the United States and Europe. He has spent half his life with alpacas, and volunteered with Awamaki this past winter in order to improve our alpaca fleece processing. Long before Adam discovered Awamaki, he had been thinking about coming to Peru, the land of the alpaca. “It’s always been a dream of mine to come here and work with the Quechua people, and to see alpacas in their...