Allspice is a huacaya alpaca who lives at Finca Alta Vista Farm. According to the Alpaca registry of colors, Allspice would be classified as beige.
The individual locks of her fiber reveal exceptional crimp with good architecture and a staple length of 4 inches. This translates to a yarn with loft, memory and an overall silky, soft handle.
For this project, the locks were washed individually, and hand combed, then pulled through a diz and spun and plied on a Canadian Production Spinning Wheel.
Finca Alta Vista commissioned this stole for sale through the Paco Fino collection. Listed below, are the project details.
"Centre Stage Stole"
64 inches long 25 inches wide
materials:
approx 800 yards handspun Alpaca
one ounce of spindle spun and plied natural tussah silk.
Copper, Silver and Gold tone seed beads
Construction:
The simplicity of design and the luxurious silk and alpaca yarns combine in subtle harmony.
A center panel of feather lace stitch is flanked by 2 panels of modified cell and garter stitch.
The panels are joined together with a three-needle bind-off and trimmed with picot beaded edging in tones of copper, silver and gold.
The shimmer of silk, the softness of alpaca and the subtle sparkle of tiny beads: this elegant stole takes center stage.
15 comments:
What a beautiful stole...it sparkles :)
One can never go wrong with luscious alpaca!
Wow! That is stunning. I love the loft and softness of the first photo!
What Manise said. Wow. Just... wow.
Applause, applause...such beautiful work! Baby, take a bow!!
What do you have planned for an encore? ;-D
I bet he loved it. What do you have planned next?
How beautiful and how gorgeous is that alpaca :) yum, yum
Beautiful! I'm going to show my ignorance, but have to ask - how did you combine the two fibers? Did you ply the silk with the alpaca?
This is gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. I am always amazed at all the work that goes into making one of these pieces of art.
Oh wow! What a beautiful mangum opus!
Gorgeous!
That is absolutely fantastic, I am sure you must be very proud of that. And I love your photography!
The stole is lovely! I can just imagine what it must feel like when it is worn - - soo silky and warm.
Absolutely stunning!
What a terrific play of light the silk plays against the shine of the alpaca. Love the picot beaded details. You have been VERY busy! Gorgeous work.
Beautiful - lovely to see what you've been working on.
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