This one is a beautiful fine alpaca with one tiny red stripe - a very fine weave, and a very high quality of alpaca. As a result it is fairly light weight for a wool poncho. The stripe is from natural vegetable dye. This antique alpaca poncho is hand-woven in rich brown shades with tiny red and magnenta lines. All the colors are natural vegetable dyes.
Colors are more true at bottom of photo.
This is the real thing - it belongs to our trainer, Maestro Milciades Alvarado of Trujillo, Peru. It is about 70 years old and in very good shape. The leather underneath also has two pockets in which the Peruvian landowners could place valuables while travelling. It is rare to find a pellon in such good original condition, with the braids still very black and not bluish, and still full and not worn away.