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Alpa

Finnish knitwear brand founded in 2012 in Jyväskylä by siblings Heikki Timlin and textile designer Ainomaria Haataja, making sweaters, cardigans and accessories from alpaca wool knitted in Finland and Lithuania with yarns from Peru. via brand about page ↗

alpaknitwear.com ↗

Origin

🇫🇮 Finland

via you ↗Wikidata says CH

City

Jyväskylä

via you ↗Wikidata says Zurich

Founded

2012

via you ↗Wikidata says 1942

Company

Small ~35 people

Band 20-49 (AlpaFinlandia Oy, Jyväskylä); Scan Magazine said 9 people earlier. NOTE: this URL is the Finnish alpaca brand founded 2012, not a Zurich 1942 company - input country/city/founded look wrong (FI, Jyväskylä, 2012)via research ↗

Owner

Independent

Founder-run; no outside owner found.via research ↗

Price

€€€ €64–€285

median €210 · T-shirt €175 · typical range of 284 products

Ethics

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Quality

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Reviews

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Newsletter

Not yet

Certifications

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Ratings

Ethics

No ethics rating found (Good On You, Fair Wear, B Corp, transparency indexes).

Quality

No independent quality test or expert review found.

Customer reviews

No review platform found.

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Verification

Research confidence: medium.

Sourcing & ethics

Sibling-founded (Heikki Timlin, Ainomaria Haataja) alpaca knitwear brand; knitted on Stoll machines in Finland and Lithuania from Peruvian alpaca yarn; offers a repair service. No certifications listed.

via research ↗