She was wholesaling finished products to Northern Images but does not have enough fibre at the moment. Every year, she does a five-day workshop at the end of June in Holman. She teaches the spinning, dyeing, and knitting of qiviuq. Most of the garments in the store are designed and knit here, she says. The undercoat of the musk ox is eight times warmer than sheep's wool.
Garments made from it are extremely light and thin for their warmth.
It is undeniably very soft. Qiviuq lacks the scales that sheep's wool has, and also lacks the resulting itch. It is finer than cashmere and has two to three times the tensile strength of sheep's wool. A light ash brown color naturally, it can be dyed. Another advantage of qiviuq is that it can be harvested without harming the animal.