Truthfully, I'm flying blind in this. I'm eager to see what it looks like when Lisa ships it down here to me to have made into UQ's. From all I've heard, qiviut is incredibly lofty and gets loftier with successive washings. Honestly, Lisa has me convinced it will be an incredible insulation material in the UQ's. And it's super durable. Things made from the qiviut yarn last to be passed down generation to generation. I'm thinking it ISN'T that it wouldn't work well as insulation, it's just that it is such a soft, hypoallergenic, rare fiber that no one (but Lisa!) would ever consider hiding it away as stuffing in something.
I am suspecting, though, that the UQ will need to be designed more like the ones that utilize synthetic insulation.
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