ALPACA FIBRE TESTING – AOF AFFILIATE

UK REGIONAL TESTING SCHEME

The Northern Ireland Alpaca Group are delighted to have signed up to The Art of Fibre ‘National Testing Scheme’.

This allows all NIAG members to benefit from discounted fibre testing costs of £3.33 per sample. Note this is only available for full current members.

Samples can be purchased and paid for in advance here .

Simply take a sample from your alpaca, details on how to do this can be found on this link.

Samples can be kept in a paper bag. Contact our Chair if you would like sample bags.

Once you have all your samples seal them in an envelope with your pre-paid confirmation from Art of Fibre and post to;
Art of Fibre
Hoofdstraat 152
6061CH Posterholt
The Netherlands

Here is a fabulous paper by Paul Vallely on ‘Positioning Alpaca Fibre as a Luxury Fibre’

For any questions or if you require any further information, please email chair@alpacani.org.

Northern Ireland Alpaca Group AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Northern Ireland Alpaca Group will be held around April of every year.

Date – April 2025; date to be confirmed closer to the time.

Time – 2pm

Venue – tbc

Anyone that is not currently a member of the group can join now for free for the first calendar year. For more information please contact Lesley Faulkner, NIAG Chair, at chair@alpacani.org.