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Monday 16 February 2015

About us

Riverdale Fibre Mill is situated on the Outskirts of Otorohanga and is purposely designed to provide the lifestyle alpaca farmer with a cost effective option for processing their alpaca fibre in to yarn.We can process Alpaca, Rabbit, Goat, wool or other sepciality fibres. We can blend in silk or blend fibres to product what you are looking for, if thats spinning from raw fleece in to knitting yarn or just carding your fleece we are here to help you, Contact us about your needs. Our machinery has been purposely designed to provide a full mill processing operation for smaller batches; we can cater from single fleeces to large batch runs. This is not a mini mill system where the machinery has been built for the cottage industry, but commercially build and ex industrial machines scaled down for a bespoke operation.There are a few things you need to know to make your processing successful if you are unsure about anything please email us, make a comment below or send a private message via our facebook page

Current Processing Prices

 Prices



The Current prices for fibre processing are as follows

Casual Carding, this includes Scour, wash condition and card $28.50 per kilo plus GST.

We can card to a slightly twisted roving or a more open one, The default is the slightly twisted one, this is great for hand spinning your fleece. If you want to felt you might prefer the more open roving.

Spinning, Prices vary depending on the size of your batch

Single fleece under 1.4kgs $160
1.4kgs up to 4kgs $115
4kgs up to 8kgs $95
8kgs up to 12kgs $85
Over 12kgs $75
All these prices are plus GST and price per kilo