What are your thoughts on crimp?
Melanie Wrote:
I do quite enjoy seeing current fibre stats, while shopping around for fleeces. I do a lot of looking around alpacanation, and really wish more people would get around to getting regular stats up. A lot of people, will only look at the micron count (oh, 21 microns!) and not the standard deviation or overall comfort factor, which can end up in a bit of wondering when they receive the fleece and it prickles ever so slightly as a scarf, so it would be great, if you had a short explanation on your fibre selling page! Another thing i really like to see, is the fibre history of the parents, just to give a little bit more idea where the alpaca will be headed in it's later years. obviously a snowmass alpaca is going to keep softness for a lot longer than a common backyard one! Another thing i cannot recommend enough, is taking a picture of a lock, next to a ruler, and posting that. it's great to see colour, and crimp! hope this helps
I'm glad you enjoy seeing the fiber stats. I will endeavor to continue marketing stats with the fleeces as well as with the animals.
I quite agree I need to have fiber pictures on the fiber sales page. It's been on the to do list for several months and hasn't happened yet. The write-up for interpretation of fiber stats is also on the list.
I'm curious about your comments on crimp. What about crimp do you find of value as a handspinner? Can you even see the crimp once the fiber has been through a carder? I know the North American alpaca show industry places a huge emphasis on crimp and I've heard all their reasons. Personally, I can't see a difference between crimpy and non-crimpy fleeces once the fleece has gone through a carder and I'm not seeing any difference in the yarn. I can see how curvature has an impact on fiber memory once yarn is made, but based on personal experience, the correlation between picture-pretty crimp and high curvature is much less than expected. I'm interested in hearing your reasons why crimp is so important and your personal experiences with different results based on crimp.
I do quite enjoy seeing current fibre stats, while shopping around for fleeces. I do a lot of looking around alpacanation, and really wish more people would get around to getting regular stats up. A lot of people, will only look at the micron count (oh, 21 microns!) and not the standard deviation or overall comfort factor, which can end up in a bit of wondering when they receive the fleece and it prickles ever so slightly as a scarf, so it would be great, if you had a short explanation on your fibre selling page! Another thing i really like to see, is the fibre history of the parents, just to give a little bit more idea where the alpaca will be headed in it's later years. obviously a snowmass alpaca is going to keep softness for a lot longer than a common backyard one! Another thing i cannot recommend enough, is taking a picture of a lock, next to a ruler, and posting that. it's great to see colour, and crimp! hope this helps
I'm glad you enjoy seeing the fiber stats. I will endeavor to continue marketing stats with the fleeces as well as with the animals.
I quite agree I need to have fiber pictures on the fiber sales page. It's been on the to do list for several months and hasn't happened yet. The write-up for interpretation of fiber stats is also on the list.
I'm curious about your comments on crimp. What about crimp do you find of value as a handspinner? Can you even see the crimp once the fiber has been through a carder? I know the North American alpaca show industry places a huge emphasis on crimp and I've heard all their reasons. Personally, I can't see a difference between crimpy and non-crimpy fleeces once the fleece has gone through a carder and I'm not seeing any difference in the yarn. I can see how curvature has an impact on fiber memory once yarn is made, but based on personal experience, the correlation between picture-pretty crimp and high curvature is much less than expected. I'm interested in hearing your reasons why crimp is so important and your personal experiences with different results based on crimp.
posted by Upper Alpacas | 10:51 AM
1 Comments:
i agree with you in that crimp is probably not As big a deal as it is sometimes made out to be. but on the other hand, look at the difference in a yarn spun with suri alpaca and huacaya alpaca. the suri has no bounce, and no give, where the huacaya, regardless of the amount of crimp, will have some. so looking at this comparison, we can come to the conclusion that a huacaya with very little crimp will be a different yarn than a huacaya with Lots of crimp. then there's everything else in the middle. no crimp isn't Bad, after all, suris are highly priced, you just have to deal with it in a different way, and not expect a fluffy bounce-back-right away yarn. personally i'll spin just about anything, and try to make the best yarn that particular fleece can become!
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