Friday, April 18, 2014

Facts About Vicunas For Sale

By Essie Osborn


There are clothes that will make you spend more than how much you are willing to spend in a month. One of the reasons why it is that expensive is that they say that it has something in it that is rare to find. One examples would be clothes that has vicuna skins. Through vicunas for sale, Andes has been known for improving their economy almost in an instant. The fur, skin, or any parts of an animal are sold nowadays not even waiting for them to die due to illness or old age.

This animal is part of the camel family. It is also commonly known as camelidae which is related to the alpaca, llama and guanaco. The skin of this animal is covered with fine, long, soft and lustrous coat that has the colors of either a light cinnamon or pale white. People who takes out their skin can get approximately 85 to 550 grams or 3 to 20 ounces each one. Although vicuna fiber is resilient and strong, it is very sensitive to chemicals and is usually used in its natural color. Its very expensive fiber is usually made into fine coats, designer gowns and shawls and even bags. Let us check out what makes this cloth extremely expensive.

It is known to be silky and its fleece are dense. Once it has already been prepared to be something useful to humans it can help you feel comfortable even to extreme coldness or sudden weather and temperature changes. It is by far the smallest of all in the family of camels with a height of 90 centimeters and a weight of only 50 kilograms.

As one of the animals living in the wild, they too feed themselves with grass. In a group of females and a male serving as their lookout, they transfer from one habitat to another. Every time a baby vicuna is born, they have to stay with their mother for 10 months before they can freely walk around by themselves.

You might think that the title of this animal skin as the most expensive and rarest cloth is good. Well, that statement is true but has a bad side as well. They are being hunted and because of that, they are now part of our endangered species.

There are a lot of ways being introduced to stop capturing these animals. The question hanging is that if those are effective. There are a lot of information you can get in here to help you understand more.

It is known to be the fabric of the Gods. This line was given by the Inca tribes. These statement means that only people from the royal family can wear it. When the Spaniards started to take over the whole tribe, they called it as the fabric of the New World. It was then that the animals started to vanish abruptly. They introduced the fabric to the whole world which causes the increase of demands.

This kind of animal has once been very abundant. During the times of the Incas, since only royal families can wear such clothing, there were less hunting. It was just enough for them to be able to still multiply.

The hunting of this animal was stopped when the order from the United Nations came out stating that any kinds of trade where vicuna is involved should be stopped. With it, vicunas started to grow in numbers already. Peru alone has 160 thousand plus of vicunas in their place. Now, people hunting it are slower than usual.




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