Tailors, merchants & brands
Heavy cloth by the metre, 142 cm wide, for coats, jackets and capsule collections. Swatch cards and spec sheets on request.
Fabrics by the metre
Baby alpaca · Pima cotton
Made in Peru,
Made in Peru,
from the Andes to Lima.
Throws for the home and fabrics by the metre.
Interior designers & hospitality
Throws for interiors, in the natural shades of alpaca. Quantities and sizes on request.
Throws
Our story
From fibre to cloth,
From fibre to cloth,
made in Peru.
Heavy fabrics and throws in baby alpaca and Pima cotton.
The yarn
Baby alpaca, blown into Pima cotton.
Our signature is a blown yarn. Baby alpaca is air-blown into a fine knitted tube of Pima cotton, so the yarn is 100% natural fibre. The air held between the fibres gives the cloth volume and warmth, and keeps it light in the hand.
- Baby alpaca60%. One of the finest grades of alpaca, in its natural shades.
- Pima cotton40%. A fine long-staple cotton, knitted into the tube.
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Pima tube
A fine knitted tube of Pima cotton.
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Blown with air
Baby alpaca fibre is air-blown into the tube.
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Lofty yarn
100% natural fibre.
The weaving
Woven by hand, high in the Andes.
Our throws are woven in Puno, on wooden hand looms, in the ancestral way.
The chunky knits are the exception. They are knitted rather than woven, and made elsewhere in Peru.
The cloth
Every cloth, on a swatch card.
Each cloth we develop is kept on a swatch card, with its composition, width and weight written beside it.
We send the cards on request, so you can feel the cloth before you order.
Store
Throws and fabrics.
Choose the pieces you like and send a request. We reply personally, with availability, swatches and samples.
Throws
Size, weight and composition on request.
Fabrics by the metre
60% baby alpaca · 40% Pima cotton · 142 cm wide.
Contact
Let’s talk cloth.
Tell us what you make. We send swatches, samples, prices and lead times.
- hello@alpalova.com
- @alpalova
- Production
- Puno and Lima, Peru
- Office
- Biella, Italy