{"id":316,"date":"2024-04-14T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T13:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T19:01:22","slug":"kas-ir-alpaka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/kas-ir-alpaka","title":{"rendered":"What is an alpaca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alpacas are farm animals originated from South American mountain area; they were specifically breed from their wild ancestors vicu\u00f1a\u2019s to have fleece that South American natives Inca people could use in clothing.
Right now in South America there are around 3 million alpacas and they are still used as the main source of fleece, similar to vicu\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gold of furry animals \u2013 fleece<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alpaca fleece is soft, warm and hypoallergenic, it has the unique characteristics of warming the wearer when it\u2019s cold and cooling down when it\u2019s hot. There are up to 52 different natural colours that alpaca fleece can be in as well as the possibilities of multi-coloured animals, for example, our alpaca Tija is multi-coloured or appaloosa, her fleece is in many colours \u2013 gray, brown, black and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tija\u2019s fleece in her first winter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tija before shearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tija after shearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alpaca fleece can be used for a lot of things: knitwear \u2013 mittens, gloves, socks, cardigans, jumpers -, blankets and pillows, washing machine balls, key chains, felted toys and many other things, possibilities for fleece usage are endless, it\u2019s up to our imagination!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

V\u0113sture \u012bsum\u0101 Alpakas ir lauksaimniec\u012bbas dz\u012bvnieki, kuru dzimtene ir Dienvidamerikas kalnainais apvidus. Alpakas tika selekcion\u0113tas no to savva\u013cas priek\u0161te\u010diem vikunj\u0101m (viku\u0146\u0101m), lai Inku cil\u0161u cilv\u0113ki var\u0113tu izmantot vilnu ap\u0123\u0113rbam.Pa\u0161laik Dienvidamerik\u0101 … <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rikasalpakas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}