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Products are made to order, so they’re not returnable unless there is a manufacturing defect.
IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE ABOUT PICKING THE CORRECT SIZE / COLOR, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER.
CARE PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING
Our garments are durable and made with naturally anti-bacterial fibers. Extra soft baby alpaca breathes very well and does not keep odors, unlike synthetic tops. As a result, you do not need to wash our garments frequently.
When you do, appropriate care is critical to preserving the freshness, softness and size of our baby alpaca garments.
You can dry clean the garments. This will guarantee the longevity of the garment, but some chemicals used in the dry cleaning process are problematic; and not everyone has the time or budget to dry clean.
The best and most durable way is to hand cold wash at home, only when needed. If that turns out to be daunting, you can machine wash carefully on cold cycle with low spinning. Use eco-friendly detergents. Do not use fresheners. if using a delicate cycle, check that the default temp is set to cold.
DO NOT PUT IN DRYER, ever. Lay flat to dry.
DO NOT HANG FOR TOO LONG. Alpaca does not have as much memory as wool, so the garment will get looser if on hangers for long.
IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE NATURAL PRODUCTS CARE PROTOCOL, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER.
MATERIAL PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING
Luxury, extra soft baby alpaca which softly wraps around you. Alpaca is a longer and fiber than wool, which makes it durable but also gives it a very “drapey” aspect that hugs your body in a blanket of warmth and softness. Alpaca has amazing insulation properties and absorbs moisture from the environment.
Sourced from Peru, from family farms that let their animals graze extensively in high altitude land generally not suitable for agriculture. On pasture land, alpacas are gentle as they have toenails (not hooves) and nibble (not rip) on vegetation. Batches can be traced down manually to the ranches that grow the raw material, via our yarn supplier which was chosen amongst other factors for their traceability program.
Alpaca comes in natural colors in the brown and grey palettes. We have down selected 1 off-white, 2 browns and 2 greys to allow for some mono-chromatic combinations which give even more texture to the yarn.
The downside from an environmental perspective is emissions from transportation. The design downside is a limited range of hues as we intend to avoid non-natural dyes as much as possible. You can compare the trade-offs between garment benefits and environmental benefits in our Collections Scorecard.
IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH OUR SOURCING TRADEOFFS, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER.
CONSTRUCTION PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING
Made with seamless 3D knitting technology. This means there is no seam per se. You may see something that looks like a seam, but it is actually “linking” where the needles need to change direction. The result is a more durable garment as there is no threads to come undone; and flatter transitions that are more comfortable to wear.
Please note that because we make garments one at a time to order, and because we use 100% natural materials as unprocessed as possible, each garment produced is unique. Not in big ways, but because our yarns are 100% natural, they do not provide the absolute symmetry and repeatability that we have come to expect from a synthetic garment. Our raw materials come from live animals and plants, and we strive to strike a balance between Tech (providing relative scalability) and Nature (minimizing processing).
As a result, we produce garments that contain an element of variability in the finish. We embrace those small imperfections as a gauge of the authenticity of our products. Those are inevitable, due to a combination of tying ends of strands of natural yarns together and using individual animals and plants for different batches.
Please note also that different batches of yarn may have every so slightly different colors, due again to the 100% natural fibers and dyes used. There are also small variations between colors, because the yarn reacts slightly differently to the various natural dyes compounds (bark vs flowers for instance). As a result, the sizing may be slightly different between for instance a black and a light pink garment.
IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH SMALL NATURAL VARIATIONS AND IMPERFECTIONS, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER.