Now weather or not you agree with furs you have to think that's pretty aweful since the animal gave it's life to create that fur. I couldn't bring myself to throw the stole away. My plan was to make the hair into jewelry but The more the fox sat the more attached I was. My Little Sis S-Girl decided he was "that baby fox" and I started to think of him as baby. I couldn't throw him away.
I had to save him.
Then tragedy struck.........................
While we were out of town for 3 days, my naughty kitten decided to have some fun in my craft room on my work table which he knows is off limits. he played with the fox and shredded a large portion of the foxes fur.I saw the mess and was about in tears. The kitten was in so much trouble.
I then learned about a method taxidermists use to fix ears that have "blown out" or have torn/been turned to far. They call it the "dryer sheet method". It involves rehydrating the leather, then gluing a dryer sheet on the inside. When the glue has set you rehydrate again and turn the ear right side out and it holds the skin together. This got me thinking and I thought if I could use glue to adhere the fur/hair to something I could then sew the peices together and fix my fox.
So I started working. I made 2 videos today of the process. they are blurry and fuzzy but I hope they will explain how it works.
The first is just and explanation. The second shows me working in real time. It's about 25 minutes of video but should give you an idea. If there's anything not explained well then please let me know and I'll reshoot!
Explanation:
Demonstration:
I'd love to know what you think or if this is helpful. I am going to try to figure out why the video's are fuzzy.
