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Thank you to our Sponsors!
General Sponsors:
T,J. Patton
Winter's Hope Alpacas, New Mexico
Tom & Leanne Butchko
Mistleoe Farm Alpacas, Tennessee
Abbie Smith
Silver Moon Alpacas, Oregon
Jan Davis
Derwydd Alpacas, CA
Hotel Sponsors:
Linda Bolewicz
Hillsboro, Oregon
Treat the Evaluators to a meal:
Judith Korff
Wits End Farm
Lisa Cadieux
Gary & Ellen Barlow
Click on the links below and get to know these mills and the people who run them. These mills have agreed to offer discounts on processing to the participants of the event. Their sponsorship directly passes savings onto you!
For those of you who want their fiber back, don't forget about the great opportunity you will have with your sorted and graded fiber to use the discounts offered by the Sponsor Mills. See what a difference it makes in your end products!
If you are a farm or mill and would like to show support of this event and become a sponsor,let us know! The cost to you is offering a discount coupon to the participants of the Event.
Fiber purchase and pick-up
Vermont Fiber Factory
Dragonfly Farm
Alpaca Blanket Project
NEAFP
Fiber purchase
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
Get your fleeces ready!
We have a real treat planned for you this Spring! Announcing the Unskirted Fiber Event for March 30 through April 1st. This will be held at the North American Alpaca Show in Springfield, Massachusetts.
. And to make this event even more exciting ..... CIABA will be hosting a Sort-a thon! We are all working together to help our industry grow. Wow! Get your fleeces evaluated by experts in the Unskirted Fiber Event and bring the rest of your fleece to be sorted and graded by hard working, dedicated hands of apprentices! Get to know them! Bring a potluck lunch to share and come have lunch with us! Come and watch the event! Be ready to learn!
Believe it or not, in just a few short months 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.
Details will be announced soon, but mark your calendars now! There will be options to choose what you want to do with your fleece.
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!
Wini Labreque of Starweaver Farm & Fiber Innovations will be gracing the International Alpaca Odessey. We hope you have a great time Wini!
Many have said this is the Fiber Event that changed the industry
Dont you think, it is time to realize......
It's not all about the ribbons it about the fiber!
New and Exciting a giant sort-a thon!
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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.
