One order, not two
Rugs count toward the same 50 pieces or $500 as the alpacas do, so a shop can put six rugs and forty minis on one quotation and one shipment.
### Alpaca fur rugs ###
Alpaca fur rugs, 100 by 65 cm
An alpaca fur rug is a hundred by sixty-five centimetres of natural fur, in the same eight shades the toys run in, from the same workshop and the same sorting. Three kilos each. They count toward the same minimum as everything else, so a rug order and a toy order are one order.
- Size
- 100 x 65 cm
- Weight
- About 3 kg
- Shades
- 8
- Material
- Real alpaca fur
### The shades ###
Eight, light to dark
Sahara through to Cacao. A rug is one animal, so the shade is whatever that animal was, and the dark end of the range is the scarce end.
The squares above are the fur itself. Photography of the rugs is being made, and cartons and weights are confirmed at quotation. The collection page.
### Ordering ###
How a rug order works
Priced per order
A rug takes a great deal of one colour of fur, and what it costs follows the shade and the season more closely than a toy does. Ask and it comes back within 24 hours with the rest of your mix.
A different line on your customs entry
A rug is an article of furskin and a stuffed alpaca is a toy, so they sit in different chapters of the tariff. Worth settling before the first shipment. Importing from Peru.
### What it is ###
Fur, not a weave
A rug like this is the coat as it grew, which is a different object from a rug made of yarn.
A woven rug is fibre spun into thread and then made into a cloth, so the colour is a decision and the pile is a specification. A fur rug is the coat itself, backed and finished at the edge, so the colour is whatever the animal was and the pile is whatever the animal had. That is why the eight shades here are the eight the herds give rather than a palette somebody chose.
It also means no two are the same, and that the shade you order is a shade rather than a colour code. A buyer who wants forty identical rugs is asking for something fur cannot do; a buyer who wants forty rugs in the light range is asking for something ordinary.
Care follows from the same fact. It is cleaned on the surface and never soaked. How to wash alpaca fur.
### Before you order ###
What comes with it
The same sorting as everything else
Graded by colour and by fineness by the same people, in the same workshop, in the same shade order the toys run in. How a piece is made.
Papers with every order
Packing list and commercial invoice, ex works Lima, quoted within 24 hours, on terms that are published rather than negotiated.
Where the fur comes from
A by-product of Andean herding, the same answer as the rest of the catalogue, set out in full on its own page.
Questions, meet Answers
A hundred by sixty-five centimetres, and about three kilos. One rug is one animal, so the shade is whatever that animal was.
Eight, light to dark: Sahara, Blond, Sandstone, Hazelnut, Caramel, Walnut, Chocolate and Cacao. The dark end of that range is the scarce end, because a near black coat is not a common animal and a rug takes a great deal of one colour.
Yes, toward the same 50 pieces or $500 as everything else. A shop can put six rugs and forty minis on one quotation and one shipment.
Shake it and air it, which is most of the maintenance. Vacuum on the lowest setting with no beater bar, in the direction of the pile, and never soak it. It is fur, so it is cleaned on the surface rather than washed through.
### Alpaca fur rugs · 100 by 65 cm ###
Build the mix. The quotation comes back within 24 hours.