BLACKWATTLE

Blackwattle Yarn and Fibre is the creation of us, Angela and Matthew Smith, which we run from our farm ‘Blackwattle Alpaca Farm', located in Murrumbateman, NSW. Our farm and yarn businesses are named after the truly gorgeous, black wattle trees that grow across our property. We started our alpaca fibre love affair following the purchase of two alpacas, when we moved to the farm in 2008. The alpaca numbers grew quickly and we now run a herd of about 70 alpacas, mainly breeding females. We focus our alpaca breeding program on developing and producing alpacas that meet the industry standards, whilst focusing on the commercial needs of the fibre these beautiful animals grow. Our yarn and fibre business grew from the humble beginning of processing and selling our own fibre grown by our herd, to a point now where we purchase and process bulk fibre from a broad acre alpaca farm in Binda, NSW, which runs over 3500 alpacas. As a trained artist, Angela uses her skills learnt whilst completing a..

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