Alpaca Wool

[Knitting Jo]

If someone is allergic to sheep wool and lanolin, would they still react to Alpaca or angora?
There might be a light at the end of my no-sheep knitting tunnel....

[lindys]

I don't know the answer to your Q...but I have heard that wool allergy is more often related to residues, etc in the wool, than the fibre itself. Many who have this problem can use organic wool successfully...might be worth considering?

[Katanya]

If you have a true protein fibre intollerance, then I'd say more likely

I would agree with Lindy and say try some organic wool

[tikki]

we were talking to a lady who farms alpaca or llamas (can't remember which one) at the local ag show and she said that it is good for people with wool allergies, they have no lanolin in their wool. maybe they were llamas?? they were the bigger ones.

[Lil B and Mumma]

Llamas are the bigger ones. Neither Alpaca (I have two) or Llama wool has natural lanolin. If you are wanting to use it for clothing, it's great as is, if you are wanting to use it as a soaker, so lanolise it as for sheep wool