Reviews of Qiviut (Costumes)

Oh So Happy Johnnie!

Super friendly, helpful and informative young lady named Susan I believe. Yarn and instructions for a knit hat under $100. Musk ox down is so soft and beautiful and warmer than cashmere, it’s worth it!

Margaret Wiltfong Tovrea

Specialty products shop. Prices are so inflated that, for all practical purposes, they prohibit purchase by all but the most highly hypnotized tourist trade!

Peggy McCormack

To Kelly Jones' statement (because I can't directly add a comment to her post)... Obviously you don't understand nor appreciate the process of obtaining qiviut. There are no commercial musk oxen farms like sheep farms where the animals can be shorn for their wool. Musk oxen are wild animals and unlike sheep wool, qiviut is the insulating under-layer, beneath the longer outer-layer of hair. Because the animals roam the wild tundra, people have to go out and actually find the raw qiviut that the animals have shed. That process is expensive in itself, what with the price of gas being about $10/gallon in some remote regions of Alaska. They typically don't find it in winter because it's covered with snow nine months out of the year. Then there's the cost of cleaning and processing the raw materials. It all adds up to yes, $90 per skein. Perhaps you should rethink your rating and base it on the establishment's customer service and quality of workmanship and products rather than the price of a skein of qiviut.

Kelly Jones

Ummmm... no. These people tried to charge me $90 for a 1 oz skein of yarn. They also offer raw wool at $4.00 for maybe a half gram sample. A musk ox is a big animal. I'm at a loss for why they can't get their costs down.

Rich Hernandez

My wife loved this store. The women that helped us was very helpful and knowledgeable about Musk ox. Made the visit very interesting. I bought my wife Qiviut to make hats and the yarn for it.