New Luxury Queen Alpaca Wool Blanket Soft as Cashmere Handwoven baby alpaca blanket with 100% silk binding Start Price USD 450.00 Current Price USD 450.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, December 01, 2008 End Time Thursday, December 11, 2008 Location Carlton, OR See more about 'New Luxury Queen Alpaca Wool Blanket Soft as Cashmere' Description The Grey Windows Blanket   My window pane blanket offers a classic design in subtle tones. It is woven with a 2/2 point twill weave structure. The direction of the twill in each window pane is reversed from each of the panes adjacent to it, creating patterns in the border yarns. It’s beautiful from a distance and even more interesting upon closer inspection. And, as with all my blankets, the drape is luxurious and the hand incredibly soft.   Both the blanket and its binding were woven and assembled by hand by me in my weaving studio outside Carlton, Oregon, USA.  The blanket is woven with baby alpaca yarn and the binding is of 100% silk.  I use alpaca yarn because of the extraordinary properties that make it one of the finest luxury yarns on the world fiber market today.  In addition to being as soft as cashmere, alpaca fiber has additional properties that make it a perfect for blankets.  First, it is warm; warmer than wool.  It is also strong to create a fabric of lasting quality, and it has a luster that gives it a beauty all its own.    The baby alpaca yarn I use is softly spun, worsted yarn.  Because it is worsted, it fulls during the finishing process to give the fabric structural integrity, while still maintaining its visual integrity in the process so that each yarn in the finished fabric is still visible and individually recognizable. This means that the weave structure is still apparent to add an additional layer of visual interest to the colors and design as well as a unique hand, drape and texture.   All of my blankets are hand-woven on a 98-inch wide, air-assisted, shuttle loom. The silk bindings for each blanket are also woven by hand on the same loom.   My goal is to have each blanket I weave present the fullest expression of the art of weaving. Weaving is a joy and a pleasure for me. I hope that a little of that joy and pleasure is transferred to you when you wrap yourself in the Handwoven Luxury of a Bōdmer Blanket. Place a Bid!