dragonlady7

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mxbuster https://mxbuster.tumblr.com/ replied to your post wknd https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/673495615951552512/wknd and said:

                                         Be careful when salvaging old

furs. If they haven’t been stored properly they can have rot. Also if you’re sewing them the skin pieces need a muslin backing so your stitches won’t tear through the skins.

Please tell me more!!! I assume rot would be fairly apparent; I plan to have to discard a lot of the fur if it’s bald or worn or gross or whatever.

How can I attach the muslin backing? I had been wondering about this! Of the two stoles I’ve bought so far, one has no lining and so it’s just the fur and then some felt padding, clearly meant to be interlining for bulk, and I was wondering how it was attached. Could I use like, spray adhesive to attach the muslin, or do I need to attempt to carefully quilt or tack it into place?

I’d been figuring that the blanket would need to be lined, and I’d been pondering whether to put a quilted lining on, and whether maybe I want to attach that to some interlining on some of the furs, to give them some body. I have a ton of unspun wool that I figured I’d sort of roughly felt to provide the bulk/batting, but I really don’t know what I’ll put on the back of the blanket. Probably just flannel or something. Maybe even just plain cotton or linen, the furs themselves should be plenty in terms of insulation.

I also hope to use some of the offcuts to make fake hides of fake animals to use as decor, so we’ll see how that goes. If I don’t get weird with this what’s the point?

And like, of course the woolly mammoth, but i haven’t totally concepted that one out either. (the tusks on my childhood one were felt with a wire armature but i’m not a tiny child now so i could perhaps do something more ambitious. maybe carved wood??) (Your picture was not posted)