Coffee Beanies, Alpaca wool sweater, black, Burundi

Our fluffy alpaca wool blend is exactly how we want it to be. Fluffy enough to snuggle up in on those early mornings.

Alpaca is the best source of wool. It is gentle in its environment, drinks very little water and only eats the outermost branches of a large area. The wool is the most temperate wool. So it is perfect for our changeable weather. At the same time, it holds water up to 40% of its own weight without losing its ability to keep you warm. The yarn for the sweaters is brushed wool with alpaca wool and sheep wool as well as some polyamide or nylon to give the products durability for many years of use.

Either the wool is deadstock and should have been burned. Alternatively, it is a wool composition with some recycled polyamide and biodegradable alpaca/wool.

Coffe Beanies is a slow fashion brand: higher quality; timeless designs, smaller production and no machines.

Meaning of your purchase: Knitting is the way out of extreme poverty for coffee farmers. Every time you buy one of these beautiful sweaters, you ensure the survival of a hardworking Burundian family trying to make a living as coffee farmers. But it requires our help when we are talking about the poorest country in the world (2022).

Coffee Beanies sweaters are a way out of poverty for a hardworking Burundian family. When an African knitter makes one sweater a week, it can feed the whole family for a week. A hand-knitted sweater is help for self-help.

When a knitter makes one sweater a week, it means food for a week for the whole family.

Size: The alpaca sweater is hand-knitted. The size may vary from time to time. We have asked the knitters to aim for the following measurements: 55 cm. wide and 54 cm. long. The sleeves are slightly longer than the sweaters you usually find.

It is one size – since people have individual tastes and we do not want to dictate who it fits – whether it should be worn tight or loose.

Washing instructions: We always recommend that you hand wash and line dry our products. Wool is basically self-cleaning and you can hang it out to dry in your bathroom in the steam after showering.