Over winter break, I came accross a couple of mink coats from the 1930's that someone was throwing out. they were in pretty bad shape when I got them but they were exactly what I needed to start my Oh-Fur-Alls. I had started a collection of furs from thrift stores, tag sales, and donations years ago with this idea in mind and was pretty anxious to get started. I ended up having to do allot of work on the two mink coats to loosen up the fur. They were all dry and cracked, and overall, very tough and unworkable. I set up a ladder directly over a humidifier overnight to ger some moisture back into the pelts, then spent the next two days conditioning the leather from the back side. I've never undertaken making cloths before so my template was a pair of overalls I had allready had. About a week later and a couple thousand stitches, I now keep warm with what you see here...
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