Politics keeps Vicuna off market. (Andean vicuna wool from Peru)

WWD | October 9, 1990| | Copyright

POLITICS KEEPS VICUNA OFF MARKET

LIMA, Peru (FNS) - Export of one of the world's finest fabrics, made from the wool of the Andean vicuna, is being delayed by political infighting and the near bankruptcy of Peru's government.

But the prized cloth may soon legally reach world markets. Peru's president, Alberto Fujimori, has signed a law to promote export of vicuna wool, and two companies recently produced the first samples of government-approved fabric for export.

Legal export of the wool may help save the vicuna, a small, fragile-looking relative of ...

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