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If you are thinking about how expensive a real wool could cost. The most expensive wook comes from an animal called the vicuña from South America.  Each yard of wool coming from this animal would cost from $1800 to $3000 per yard.

One of the reasons why this wool from vicuña is that expensive is that, they are hard to catch and would be difficult to harvest the wool.  Each scales inside interlocks thus locking the heat for the wearer and protected from cold.

In 1974, there were only 6,000 vicuñas left so the animals were protected by the government. Although today, there are more than 125,000 population, the goverment still regulates the harvesting of the vicuña wool.  When the animal is sheared, they are not to be killed but freed to the wild instead to pro-create.  One of the animals could only produce one pound of wool each year and under the law each animal could only be sheared every three years.

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