Stocking up the Hair Department...
I've been in the mood to get mohair. (ha) I looked around Ebay but then ended up at -- Etsy! There I found a half ounce of beautifully clean locks of Suri alpaca, from a young Suri alpaca. People are selling the locks off of their baby alpacas, in rural California.
The locks I bought turned out to be more reddish in person than I anticipated from the picture. They are so soft. At another site, I bought mohair roving, liking the flaxen color. The Suri alpaca is a lot softer and silkier than the mohair roving (right).
Then I bought a huge amount of human hair at a doll show. Probably at least twenty ounces. It would make very special dolls I am sure. One of the samples I had to weigh as I was curious. It is dark brown and so much heavier than the others. It weighs almost five ounces; an equivalent amount of other hair types weighs 1.8 ounces. I wonder what the lady (or man) was eating.
Hm, well, I guess it's like using mohair off another living creature, right??? So far I have only put it into separate bags. And stowed it in a dry area.
