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June 28, 2008
100% Baby Camel, Camel Hair
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There are two types of camel: the Dromedary (single hump) and the Bactrian Camel (double hump). Both are native to the dry and desert areas of Asia and northern Africa. The name camel comes via the Greek "kámēlos" from the Arabic "jamal" or the Hebrew "gahmal", all meaning "camel".
The down is spun into yarn for knitting. -Wikipedia.org
Camel hair is from the extremely soft and fine fur from the undercoat of the camel. Camel’s hair can be used alone but is most often combined with fine wool for overcoating, topcoating, sportswear and sports hosiery. Because of the beauty of the natural color, fabrics containing camel’s hair are usually left in the natural camel color or dyed a darker brown. Light weight and soft, it is said that a 22 oz. camel fabric is as warm as a 32 oz. woolen fabric. - Wool Fabrics
CAMEL FIBER
Bactrian camels have two coats: the warm inner coat of down and a rough outer coat which is long and hairy. They shed their fiber in clumps consisting of both coats and is normally gathered. They produce about 5 pounds (2 kg) of fiber annually. Camel down is the soft warm inner down of a bactrian camel with a fiber structure similar to cashmere. The down is usually 1-3 inches long with a micron count of about 15-22 microns. Camel down does not felt easily. Baby Camel Top has been becoming more popular every year. It has a staple length of over 2 inches which is quite long for camel. Camel wool has unique characteristics of conductivity, softness and strength. - Peace of Yarn
* awaiting arrival (July-August): Lang Gobi [70% Merino extra fine, 30% Baby Camel], col. 39 Camel, 94 Pearl
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This is a super soft camel yarn, hand (Natural Oatmeal) and mill (Natural Brown) spun in China. The remarkable beauty of camel fibre is not only in its super softness, but also in its natural, free of dye, colours.
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* Patterns for 100% Camel Wool: Gardiagn (Verena knitting magazine) | 3 
100% Baby Camel in Natural Oatmeal (
* 5 hanks
) is hand spun and has slubs: enlarge 1| enlarge 2 |
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