Today was the day I was supposed to check out buying wool for my wife, Earline. The bulk wool stores are located approximately at the corner of Scalabrini Ortiz and Cordoba and are on Scalabrini Ortiz. Saturday is not the best day to do this as you must take a number and fight a lot of women for a place in line to buy wool.
The stores are typical wool stores except that the prices are in kilogram of wool. A typical price might be 45-60 pesos per
kilogram of wool. To see if this is a good deal, you would have to know how much wool it takes to make a particular item and then compare it to the USA prices. I then wrote to Earline who weighed some recent scarves she made. They weigh 12-20 grams and take about 3 small skeins or one large skein to make. That would come to about $6 US. Thus you could make perhaps 50 scarves from a kilo of wool at a BA cost of $15-$20 US dollars. This is a good deal.
I will now have to return to purchase some bulk wools. They sell cashmier and mohair among other speciality wools.
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