Friday, April 18, 2014

How Vicunas For Sale Started

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.

Vicuna is among the family of camels. They are also called as camelidae related to the alpacas, guanaco and llama. Its skin is covered with long, soft and fine coat that is colored with light cinnamon or a pale white. That description alone will make you imagine how comfortable a coat made of it would be. This animal skin is usually processed to be a coat, gowns, shawls or bags.

Because of its silky and dense fleece, once it is being reserved it provides you great insulation against extreme coldness and sudden changes of temperature. This animal is know to be the smallest among the camelids family. It only has a height of 90 centimeters or 36 inches and weighing 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.

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.

They can be considered to be one of the animals that are essential because of what they have. But the bad side of it is that they are being hunted without limit. Hunters seem to enjoy them for they cost so much. Because of that, they are now one of the considered endangered animals.

Here are more information as to why it costs a fortune to have something to wear with vicuna as cloth or fabric. This kind of fabric only has 12 microns compared to the usual fabrics that has 16 to 18 microns. It is even considered as finer than our own hair.

It was first considered to be the fabric for the Gods. It was the Incas who first used them as clothing. But as to how they call it, only people from royal families will have the chance to wear it. When the Spaniards took over them, it was when all the bad things happen. Demands for vicunas increased when these people started introducing it to the world for their own benefits. They call it the fabric of the New World.

From having over a million of vicunas during the Inca tribe times, it rapidly dropped to over 5 thousand when the Spaniards took control of everything. This happened when they started to introduce the fine fabric to the world. Demands of having such from different countries increase resulting to frequent hunting.

The hunting only stopped when an order coming from the United Nations was declared. They were asking all vicuna hunters to stop. Then reproduction of the animal then increased up to 160 thousand.




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