qiviut dialect

After dehairing, the qiviut may be cleaned again, if necessary.

An adult muskox can produce four to seven pounds of qiviut a year.

This lends itself to combing the qiviut from the animal in a single large sheet.

It is a knitting cooperative that works with qiviut and is still in operation today.

I wish I'd brought my qiviut dress.

Wild muskoxen have qiviut fibers approximately 18 micrometres in diameter.

Then the finished qiviut is returned to Anchorage and mailed, usually by plane, to the 150 or 200 knitters who work at any one time.

The raw, cleaned qiviut is spun and then the yarn is washed.

Descriptions of muskox skin are limited despite the fact that its fine undercoat, commonly known as qiviut, is in increasing commercial use.

Exotic fibers, such as silk, bamboo, yak and qiviut are growing in popularity as well.

In Alaska, qiviut is obtained from farmed animals or gathered from the wild during the molt.

Natural qiviut is soft grayish brown in color, but it takes dye well and can be found for sale in myriad colors.

Is that qiviut?

Mechanical carding can cause breakage and weaken and roughen the qiviut.

Because it is warm as well as almost weightless, qiviut lends itself to a variety of headgear that doesn't muss a hair.

According to Sutherland, qiviut is eight times warmer than wool, and is as fine and light as silk.

The muskox has a two-layered coat, and qiviut refers specifically to the soft underwool beneath the longer outer wool.

Much of the commercially available qiviut comes from Canada, and is obtained from the pelts of muskoxen after hunts.

• Long, skirt-like guard hairs and thick "qiviut" wool provide insulation, and square, short-legged body retains heat.

She wants me to stay here and learn how to weave baskets and carve ivory and spin qiviut and die of boredom!

The hair follicle density is very high (approximately 42 per square millimeter) and qiviut is shed in a tightly synchronized spring molting period.

There are currently plans of introducing muskox to the surrounding area, as a source of food and traditional hide, called qiviut, and as a tourist attraction.

The material, Qiviut, spun from the winter underwool of domesticated musk oxen, is produced only in minuscule amounts and exclusively in Alaska.

Locals subsist mainly on hunting and fishing, and specialize in selling qiviut, the under-wool of the Arctic muskox, whose value has soared in recent years.

It is a domesticated herd in Palmer, Alaska, though, that produces the qiviut for the hats, scarves, stoles, mufflers and tunics that can be bought today.