A dollar over the same size
A 23 cm Baby Alpaca is $16.90 where a 23 cm Naturals is $15.90, at the entry tier. The difference is the grade, and it holds at every tier.
### Baby Alpaca ###
Baby Alpaca: stuffed animals in the fur of young alpacas
Baby Alpaca is not a colour and not a young animal on a shelf, it is a grade. The fur of a young alpaca is shorter, softer and denser than the fur of a grown one, and there is not much of it. Three shades, at 23 cm, priced above the rest of the catalogue for that reason.
- Height
- 23 cm / 9"
- Grade
- Fur of young alpacas
- Shades
- 3
- Per carton
- 60
### The shades ###
The three the grade is worked in
The squares above are the fur itself. Photography of the finished pieces is being made, and until it is, ask what is in production before you plan a quantity. The collection page.
### Price and minimum ###
What it costs, and why it is more
Baby Alpaca, size by size
| Size | Height | Per carton | 50+ | 500+ | 1,500+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmallSM | 23 cm9" | 60 | $16.90 | $16.40 | $15.50 |
Lead time: 50+: 4 to 6 weeks · 500+: 6 to 8 weeks · 1,500+: By agreement
Prices are per piece, in US dollars, ex works Lima. Carton quantities are indicative and confirmed at quotation.
One size, and that is the line
23 cm only. There is not enough of this fur to run it at four sizes, and a line that promised them would be promising a season it cannot fill.
It counts toward the same fifty
50 pieces or $500 an order, whichever you reach first, counted across every collection at once. Five of any one colourway is the floor. Ordering and terms.
### The grade ###
What Baby Alpaca actually means
It is a word the whole trade uses and almost nobody explains, which is how it ends up sounding like a marketing term.
Fur is graded by how fine the fibre is, measured across it. The finer it is the softer it feels, the more evenly it sits, and the more it is worth. The fur of a young alpaca is finer than the fur of a grown one, and that is where the name comes from.
What follows from that is scarcity. There is simply less of this fur than there is of everything else we work with, so the line stays small on purpose rather than by accident, and it runs in three shades instead of ten. Where it comes from is the same answer as the rest of the catalogue, set out in full on its own page.
If you already sell alpaca, this is the piece to put beside the ones you have. The difference between a Baby Alpaca and a Naturals at the same size is obvious in the hand and invisible in a photograph, which is exactly why it belongs on a counter rather than in a catalogue shot.
### Before you order ###
What comes with it
Tested to the standards your market asks for
EN 71-1, -2 and -3, ASTM F963-23, CPSIA and REACH, with the eyes and nose secured to the pull tests those standards set. Every code and every scope is printed on the compliance page.
Hand finished, one pair of hands a piece
Cut, sewn, faced and checked by the same person, which is why the tenth carton looks like the first. How a piece is made.
Papers with every order
Packing list, commercial invoice and the test file. Ex works Lima, quoted within 24 hours, and the terms are published rather than negotiated.
Questions, meet Answers
A grade, not a colour and not a young animal on a shelf. Fur is graded by how fine the fibre is, and the fur of a young alpaca is finer than the fur of a grown one: shorter, softer and denser. There is less of it, which is why the line stays small and is priced above the rest.
One, 23 cm, at 60 to a carton. There is not enough of this fur to run it at four sizes, and a line that promised them would be promising a season it cannot fill.
The grade. A 23 cm Baby Alpaca is $16.90 at the entry tier where a 23 cm Naturals is $15.90, and the difference holds at every tier. Finer fibre is worth more and there is less of it.
Three: Ivory, Blond and Hazelnut. Photography of the finished pieces is being made, so ask what is in production before you plan a quantity.
### Baby Alpaca · 23 cm · from 50 pieces ###
Build the mix. The quotation comes back within 24 hours.