The way we examine and look at alpaca fibre is slowly becoming more scientific. The tests we have on our own alpaca fibre cover a wide range of measurements. In all there are 11 measurements which we track. Here is a copy of an extended histogram you can see Yocom-McColl have calculated values for several metrics associated with this particular fibre sample.



You will notice there are two bar graphs one based on fibre diameter and one based on the number of medullated fibres in the sample.

Tomorrow I will go through the various measurements in more detail.

Adrian Stewart