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• n  the wool of the vicuna
• n  a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna
• n  small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat

• SHOKAY: It's a little known fact, but yak undercoats actually rival cashmere, alpaca and vicuna for softness.
• Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills.
• Instead of the usual lineup of new fall products, visitors were treated to a panoply of custom services--from bespoke suits offered up in over 1500 fabrics to vicuna and baby .

• Vicugna vicugna

News & Articles

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• If Farming Vicuna Saves Them, From Extinction Then Shouldn't We Farm Elephants and Tigers Too?
  This little story about a property purchase in Argentina set me thinking: The 330 square miles (85,000 hectares) of high altitude grassland and mountain peaks are valuable to Loro Piana because they are home to 6,000 vicuna, whose “golden fleeces” provide the super-soft wool that the company uses to produce its coats, sweaters, coats and scarves.
  July 5, 2013 - Forbes