
Alpaca
Alpaca isn’t a fabric — it’s a geography, a species, and two fibre types that refuse to behave like wool.
The other minds, granted moral status slowly and unevenly.




Nylon is a family of synthetic thermoplastics characterised by amide linkages, melt-processed into fibres, films and moulded shapes. Wallace Carothers made the first one at DuPont in 1935, and women's stockings made it famous. Pure nylon's weaknesses in clothing led to blends with cotton, polyester and spandex, and pure nylon is now rarely used.

