Found a Fur

[Tengu]

Ok, so the title is alliterative....

Its actually more golden than the picture.

The label says real fur....

Its undyed fur! golden with that brown flecks.

Not mink, not chincilla, not beaver! maybe rabbit but the guard hairs are long

are there foxes that colour?

 

[Toddy]

That's a Coney fur jacket my dear
It's rabbit, very popular those were late 70's early 80's.
That colourway was called Blonde.

Very soft, very tactile, needs specialist cleaning or it smells foosty after a while.

cheers,
Mary

 

[Tengu]

But Coney are just rabbits, yes?

 

[British Red]

Yep, defo a bunny jacket

Makes lovely hats, mittens and indeed cushions

 

[Toddy]

Yes, but 'posh' rabbits
Usually bred for their fur.

cheers,
Mary

 

[Toddy]

Hear ?, just had a thought
You know you wanted a down quilt, Tengu ? How about using that jacket and making yourself one of the rabbit fur blankets like those the indigenous North Americans made ?
Supposedly very warm

cheers,
M

 

[Tengu]

Posh rabbits, eh?

No, I dont fancy one of those knitted blankets...I have heard they shed hair like billy O.

Still, not bad for 50p.

 

[Toddy]

Bargain

I must admit I did wonder about those blankets; I just couldn't see how the hang it was possible to cut a skin into wee strips and not get lots of loose fur. On the other hand, folks swear by those reindeer skins for underblankets and they shed worse than a German Shephard in full moult

I had coney fur coats, hats and muffs when I was a little girl, and my first pair of courrans were made of rabbit too.
Very warm they were, and then my infant self sussed out that my new white furs looked awfully like Snowy next door. I refused to ever wear them again. (I think my Mother was actually relieved, they'd been a present from an Aunt who's only child was the most pristine little girl on the planet, while I thought that half an hour spent climbing inside and investigating the coal bunker a happy way to spend some time there were fossils to be found )

British Red's advice is good, hats and mitts maybe socks too

cheers,
M

 

[tombear]

Slightly off topic but how many fur coats to make one of the fur sleeping bags they used on the pre Great War antartic trips?

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/antarctica/blog-archive/?p=367

OK, rabit fur aint raindeer fur but you get the idea?

ATB

Tom

 

[Toddy]

I think you'd need three or four of those jackets.

I know a man who sells seal skins if you're after some.

cheers,
M

 

[tombear]

Three or four I could probably get from one tour of the charity shops, I will have to have a sniff at one and see if it sets off my allergies.

I did stumble on a source of raindeer bags but its a little pricey

http://www.chichesterinc.com/ScottSleepingBags.htm


Still, interesting to see.

Seal skins are probably a little beyond my pocket, and requirements (although thats never stopped me before) but thanks for the thought.

Cheers!

Tom

 

[fishfish]

ide be intrested in sel skins,would you pm me details?

 

[shaggystu]

just thought i'd tag along with the "found a fur" theme, anyone want to hazard a guess at what this is made from.

and any ideas what i could use it for?

cheers

stuart

 

[rcs]

just thought i'd tag along with the "found a fur" theme, anyone want to hazard a guess at what this is made from.

and any ideas what i could use it for?

cheers

stuart

It looks like my old dears mink stole.

cheers,
Rob

 

[shaggystu]

It looks like my old dears mink stole.

cheers,
Rob

mother thinks the same, the only way i'd recognise mink is if it jumped up and bit me.

so, assuming it is mink, what's it good for?

stuart

 

[Tengu]

it does look like mink, doesnt it?

Id be inclined to mke a hat or ruff.

nice as fur is, I think its a bit hot for our climate. (Toddys childhood winters excepted)

 

[shaggystu]

.....Id be inclined to mke a hat or ruff.....

i suggested a nice fur hat to SWMBLT, much hilarity ensued.

a ruff might be an idea, or mittens maybe, i'll think of something eventually

stuart

 

[Toddy]

My grandmother's fur coat was that colour, but I thought it was Canadian red squirrel. Thinking on it now, I didn't know the Canadian's *had* red squirrel It was a very long time ago, maybe it was fox ?

My childhood had snow so deep I couldn't see over the passageways the neighbours cut into the drifts. Imagine last Winter but with more snow and you wouldn't be far wrong. We usually get two or three like that in a row, and then the climate shifts about again and they're much milder for a few years.
Believe me, if they stayed cold we'd all brave Peta's wrath and break out the furs like the Queen does

The mink stole would make a good hood lining and the same for a pair of mitts.

cheers,
Toddy

p.s. Fishfish I'll ask around and find his latest email address for you.
M

 

[BorderReiver]

it does look like mink, doesnt it?

Id be inclined to mke a hat or ruff.

nice as fur is, I think its a bit hot for our climate. (Toddys childhood winters excepted)

I wore my fur hat for a day or two last winter; damn glad I did too.

 

[British Red]

My Sheepskin Jerkin was out today. Okay its "common" fur, but its warm and I can still swing my shoulders!