A mink fur coat like this will typically catch your eye immediately. As you may expect, this is one of the most sought after types of fur coats. If you spot mutated mink fur during your next shopping trip, be sure to check it over for quality. Ask the store staff about the fur and give it a feel. That way, you know your one of a kind coat is authentic and of good quality. You can almost think of a coat made from pieced fur as being like a patchwork quilt. The females, which are smaller than the males, have softer and silkier pelts.
In coats it may be let out, like mink. The best fisher is a chocolate brown in color. Fitch comes in several natural colors. White fitch, which is native to Siberia, has distinctive flank markings.
Fitch also comes from Germany, Austria, and Poland. This fitch is dark in color, with the best Polish fitch having distinctive stripes. Paradise or yellow fitch comes from Mongolia. Although fitch used to be dyed to resemble mink and sable, as the price has gone up, it has become valued for itself, with the best Russian white fitch becoming more expensive than mink.
It has long guard hairs and woolly, compact underfur. In dark fitch, the underfur is lighter in color than the dark guard hairs. Fitch can be worked many ways, both let out or in chevron and other designs for coats and jackets.
It is less durable than mink, but it will wear well with care. Fox, which comes in many natural colors, is found all over the world.
Because of its long hair and distinctive coloring, its popularity depends on fashion, especially in the US. Fox is easy to ranch and was ranched extensively in the US at the height of its popularity. As its popularity waned, however, American fox farmers turned to raising mink, with the result that almost all fox today comes from ranches in Scandinavia especially Norway , other European countries, and Russia, where it has always been fashionable.
The ranching made possible the development of mutations such as silver and platina fox, that are variations of the natural colors.
Fox wears well, although it needs regular cleaning and care to keep the fur fluffy and the skins soft and supple. The price depends on the popularity, but red the most common fox is the least expensive, with platina and white the most expensive. Clarity of color is important in fox, as is the fullness and density of the underfur and soft sleekness of the guard hairs.
Fox is also dyed high-fashion colors. The pattern of the long-haired back in red or brown and white flanks, or sides, is sharp. The fur is thick and soft. Guanaco is used in coats and for trimmings and accessories. It needs a lot of care, since the thick, soft fur there are no guard hairs tends to curl when wet.
If this happens, the fur should always be taken to a furrier for special ironing. Anyone who tries to repair a fur coat in any way runs the risk of ruining the fur. Kidskin comes from young goats and mainly from Ethiopia and China. The fur is short, flat, and silky with no underfur. The color may be gray, black, tan, or white. It may be dyed, too. Kidskin may be made into plates, from which garments are made. It is not a durable fur, as is the case with most flat-haired furs.
Lamb is one fur that cannot be described in a few words. It may be long-haired or short-haired. It may be flat with a wavy pattern or curly. It may be inexpensive to expensive.
In addition, the fur industry is now using types of lamb that were seldom, if ever, used before. Each type of fur, therefore, has its own characteristics and colors, although almost all curly lamb is very durable.
See Chinese Leopard Cat. Lynx is a long-haired fur that is light-colored with spotted, textured body hair. The rarest lynx is the Russian white lynx, which is protected by the Russian government. Only limited amounts of pelts are sold, accounting for its high price tag. The belly of the pelt is usually whiter and has longer fur, and garments made only of belly fur are therefore more expensive than those made from whole pelts. Canadian lynx has less subtle markings, while Montana lynx is more strongly marked.
Bay lynx or bobcat is much more strongly marked, with flatter hair, and is the least expensive kind of lynx. Marmot that is used for fur comes from Russia and China. The hair tends to be coarse, although the guard hairs are silky and the underfur is thick. Although it may be used in its naturally bluish color, it may also be dyed to resemble mink. Marmot is reasonably durable and not expensive. Marten belong to the weasel family, along with mink and sable. Russian marten, in fact, are sable.
The marten found in Canada are called Canadian sable. Marten need care and treatment to wear well and stay fluffy. The types of marten called marten are:. Mole is an example of how an animal considered to be a pest can turn out to have value. According to tradition, moles in Scotland were creating havoc among the farmers until Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII of England, ordered a garment made of mole — and started a new fashion. Mole, which comes from Europe, has a small, even tiny, pelt.
The leather is very soft, while the fur is short and delicate, resembling velvet in texture. All fur, with the exception of mole, grows from the head of the animal running back to the tail and should always be touched that way.
Musquash is the Canadian and British name for muskrat , one of the most versatile furs. It can be used many ways, including being dyed to resemble mink and plucked and sheared to resemble beaver. Hudson seal, which is no longer made but was popular in the s and s, was actually plucked and sheared muskrat dyed to look like Alaska, or northern, fur seal. The name muskrat comes from glands near the tail that give off an odor, musk. Musk is used in perfumes and cosmetics.
Muskrat are found all over the United States, mainly in marsh areas that are unsuitable for agriculture. It is extremely hardy and prolific, which means that it would become a pest if not trapped.
Its color, in general, is dark brown on the back shading to golden brown and silver on the flanks. Jersey, or eastern, muskrat is darker in color, almost black, and the most expensive. Eastern muskrat is long-wearing with care, although all muskrat wears well. It was introduced into swamps in the United States to reduce the muskrat population.
It was also farmed, and, according to one story, a few breeding pairs escaped from a farm in Louisiana during a hurricane, only to find the marshes and swamps there ideal. Whatever the reason, since its introduction into the United States in the s, nutria have thrived. If not trapped, they could become a pest in competition for the same land with muskrats and other wildlife.
Nutria has traditionally been plucked, sheared, and dyed a variety of colors from black, brown and beige to many others. Some innovative furriers have also tried using nutria natural, unplucked and unsheared. This natural nutria has thick, glossy guard hair, a light brown color shading to a yellowish red brown, and dense underfur.
The best nutria is a rich brown. Natural nutria is also dyed. All nutria is very warm and wears well, although sheared nutria needs special care — as does any sheared fur — and should always be stored in the summer. It is lighter weight than beaver, whether sheared or natural, but similar in texture and color.
The common opossum, a cousin of the Australian possum, is common across North and Central America. It has long, silvery gray guard hairs and a thick white underfur with black tips. The hair should be silky and thick and the color good.
It can last up to ten years, and may be tinted and dyed, or plucked and sheared. While some species of otter are endangered, others are not. The otter used for fur nowadays are American and Canadian inland otter. Its natural color is brown, and it wears well. Otter may be left natural or plucked and sheared, giving it a variety of looks. Otter, because of its sturdy wear and good looks, makes attractive sports furs and appeals to men as well as women.
Its guard hair, which ranges from brown to silver gray, is much darker than the dense orange yellow underfur. It may be used natural or plucked and sheared and wears well. Pony is usually dyed. It wears similarly to calf and antelope because of the flat, stiff hairs, and softness of leather is important for this reason.
The possum is indigenous to Australia, but is now far more numerous in New Zealand, where it was introduced as a source of free-range food and fiber.
Today, commercial use of possums for their fur helps underwrite an expensive campaign to eradicate or control the animal for environmental reasons. Its fur is silkier than that of its North American cousin, the opossum. The fur comes in colors provided by nature of deep browns, rusty browns and a rich blue gray.
It can be bleached, dyed or sheared. Combined with a Russian sable collar and cuffs, and the price goes up from there. The wildly furry looking lynx, which comes in a variety of types of garments, was a darling in the s. Shearling is a fur using the pelt including leather from sheep. Better tanning methods have made fine quality shearling much more lightweight and fashionable. A misnomer that comes from s fashion trends, today what designers call ponyskin is usually calfskin. It is not a very inherently expensive pelt, but prices depend on who is selling it, the designer, color the natural black and white pattern is less expensive than any dyed colors and the amount of material used.
No fur needs more care, but no fur is softer than chinchilla. An unusual wild North American fur, fisher is a low-key prestige fur, long-haired, dark and silvery. North American wild furs, baum marten offers a soft, gold look somewhere between golden sable and gold-dyed mink. Stone marten is also creamy beige but boasts a dark brown stripe, which has a blue tone in top qualities.
Naturally, different types of fur coats feature their own distinct colors. At the same time, animals of one species may come in several different hues. Animals from hot places tend to have vibrant or neutral coloration. What texture is the fur? Again, this factor depends on climate conditions. Animals from cold climates tend to have thicker, denser types of fur. Warm-weather animals, however, will have fur of a thin, coarse texture. How long is the fur?
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