East Anglia Alpaca Mill
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Mill Processing Flow Chart

The journey through our Mill

Contact us to book your fibre for processing

Fibre arrives, is booked in, transferred to our bags & weighed in
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Fibre is inspected, skirted (if required) & prepared for tumbling
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Tumbled
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Scoured
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Picked
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Carded
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Gilled
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Spun
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Wound to cones for plying
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Plyed onto cones
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Skeined
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Coned
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Re-coned, wound to balls or skeins
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Invoice sent via email
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Processing sheets completed
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Packed for shipping
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Dispatched once funds have been received
 

We have not documented every step of our processing procedure to avoid revealing our proprietary techniques however there are numerous interim tasks we undertake too.

Some in-processing photos

Further information about the BAS Fibre marque can be found here https://bas-uk.com/fibre/bas-fibre-logo/