Families directly benefit from the harvest. The specialized mills that do the dehairing need at least 225 kilograms to work with. The crucial thing with the qiviuq is that it has to be dehaired. You have to separate the down from the guard hairs. This is most efficiently done by a machine, which is true of the spinning process as well.
Chambers gets the dehairing and the spinning done by a commercial mill.
She does some hand spinning but says she can't possibly do it all herself. Dehairing is a very small industry because it only applies to certain products such as cashmere, alpaca, and qiviut, she says. There are only two dehairing mills in North America, both in the U.S. Chambers also has the spinning done there because it's convenient. She feels there is a market for qiviuq products. The only stumbling block at the moment is supply.