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The Cottage Industry Alpaca and Breeders Association TM
Thank you to our 2012 CIABAFiber Event (TM) Sponsors!
General Sponsors:
Alpaca Street
Vermont Fiber Mill & Studio
Watch for announcements
about the NAAS Sort-A-Thon!
The CIABA Fleece EventTM
Coordinator is:
Linda Lachanski
you may contact her at
Thank you to all our Volunteers for the Massachusetts Sort-A Thon!
Sorters Graders
Pamela Ellenburger
Aprentices
Hope Bitner
Pam Stenman
We need vounteers for every state and event we go to, we would love to have you join us!
Come and join the FUN CROWD!
On Sunday May 6, a public Fleece Sale at the Buckeye Show.
Experts will choose from amoung the fleece for sale those with outstanding handspinning qualities! These grades of fiber will be marked for sale at just 15.00 per pound.
Come early to get your favorite colors, and to choose that unique fleece you have been searching for!
This is exciting news for our industry!!!!
If your fiber is sitting away and doing nothing for you, please get it out, and send in your blankets to the event!
Just $10 for the sort- a thon
Alpaca Discovery Learning Kits(c)
Announcing the release of the first in the series :
The CIABA certified Alpaca Discovery Learning Kits(c)
Grades K-2: "Alpacas Begin With A"
Kits available:
Wholesale : 145.00
Retail 165.00
(suggested Retail 165.00)
Who qualifies for the whole sale price?
Wholesale price applies to CIABA members and educational organizations and facilities. Order yours now! The shcool year is about to begin! Questions? contact us
What is in the kit?
All kinds of wonderful activities!
Where can the kit be used?
introduce the kit and alpacas:
- Open Farm Days
- Fairs
- School Agriculture Curriculum
- After School programs
- School Agriculture Curriculum
- Libraries
- 4-H
- FFA
You can become a Sponsor!
A kit will be gifted to the facility of your choice in your name.
Learn how to become the Alpaca Representative in your State, Town or County. Email us for details
Sponsor a kit for your local school!
Now ,would you like to See the Kit?
Click on the picture
Registration for the CIABA NJAC Sort-A -Thon is OPEN!
** please note, before you shear this year... look at this method of collection followed correctly it will be a huge benefit to you!
FOR JUST $ 10.00 per fleece !! Have your fleece sorted and graded and the opportunity to sell!
CIABA is sponsoring Coast to Coast Sort- A-Thons!
You can enter them as they come close to you, or if your Event would like us to come to you, contact us founders@ciaba.org
Bring your blankets NOODLED if you can but (bagged) is ok!
You do not need to be a member of anything.
You do not need Alpaca ARI's.
Enter as many fleeces as you want!
You will receive a detailed sort and grade report, so you will know what your alpacas are producing.
SELL YOUR SORTED GRADED FIBER!
WANT TO SELL your fleece.... CIABA has pre-registered buyers for most all grades and colors.
Here is a list of the last Fiber Purchasers and Prices,these are subject to change
Buyer 1 Wini Labreque is purchasing at $7 per pound non hairy-4 per pound hairy.
Buyer 2 Marcee Stephenson purchasing some colors grade 2 at 8.00 per pound Non Hairy 5 per pound Hairy
Buyer 3 Timothy Auch~ Suri Fiber buyer grades 1,2,3, Non Hairy at 6.50 per pound 3.00 for Hairy.
Buyer 4 Bellesera Alpacas~ Buying grades 1-2 non hairy only 7.00 pound
Buyer 5 Kindred Kreek Fiber Mill (see add above)
buyer of Suri 6 to 11 inches grade 1,2 16/per pound Non Hairy
$8/pound Hairy, all colors except Black.
At this time we do not have a buyer for grade 6 and other strong fiber. If you would like to make an offer please contact us founders@ciaba.org
The PUBLIC
Fleece with special characteristics for handspinners will be saved and offered for sale on Sunday to the public at $15.00 per pound.
fleece sale payments for fiber sold to buyers will be paid within 45 days of the sale.
*Although CIABA can not guarantee that all fiber will be sold we will do our very best.
So clean out the store-houses of fiber! Get paid, and have the opportunity to gain insight about your fiber from your Believe it or not, in just a few short weeks it will be shearing time again. That means MORE fleece. More to store OR more to get sorted and graded for production. So let’s all do something different this year! Let’s do a major clean out!
Let’s get a head start on our schedule this year so we are not overwhelmed by fleece ever again.
As always, we will work to make this event educational, fun, practical and affordable. Get ready!!! It’s time for good things in the alpaca industry and your support helps make it all happen!
Register now... just days left!
New and Exciting! COAST to COAST Unskirted Events Sort-A Thons!
A big thank you to Alpacastreet for sponsoring this event !
If your not on Alpacastreet you may be on the wrong road!!
Registration will be opening soon for the Buckeye Sort-A -Thon.
Cost? Just $10 per fleece. Information? Priceless!
Be part of a dynamic new movement as organizations unite across the country!
CIABA
Alpaca Street
Certified Sorting Sytems(R)
NAAFP
Wini Labreque Starweaver Farms
Simple Math
- your support helps increase supply
- supply creates demand
WHY?
Because without YOUR fiber
processors can't finish projects!
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Pound for Pound, as Cottage Growers, our fiber can bring more profit to us through a cottage application. Our niche markets for specialty yarns, felted items, hand made garments, and artful creations will likely bring the highest yield directly back to the producer. However, with thousands of pounds of beautiful natural fiber available throughout the entire alpaca community, more must be done to fully utilize the potential of our fiber. Where will our focus be? Will we support the North American Fiber Markets? Will we support the efforts of our Co-ops, Designers, and Mills right here in North America? The answer is yes to all the above.
Whether you are an avid Show supporter, fiber producer, fiber enthusiast, textile creator, or designer/manufacturer, the network of cottage producers is your source of fiber. Our industry is here to stay.
Welcome to The Cottage Industry Alpaca Breeders Association ... where it all begins (TM).
It is all about fiber. No matter what you do with it, it simply all starts with the cottage industry. Without the growers and producers, fiber application has little meaning.
The Cottage Industry Alpaca Breeders Association (TM) was created to protect the interests of those producing natural fiber, and the animals that bear it. CIABA(TM) will continue to support all avenues, including commercial application of fiber that leads to a sustainable, profitable fiber industry.
