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Even though this may seem like a hodgepodge of information, facts, and news it is in someway or another related to fur.

* Fur Care Terms and Fur Manufacturing: Drumming is a process used for cleaning furs by abrasion. It is required that you tumble the fur with sawdust soaked in a special solution. The sawdust absorbs dirt and oil and the abrasive action fluffs the fur. Once a year if you use your fur and it need cleaning you should take it to a professional cleaner.

- Flat Furs are furs that have only one type of hair or fur like Seal and Persian Lamb, for example.

- Shearing is the act -actually, the technique- of trimming fur to reduce weight and bulkiness, while also creating designs and patterns in the fur pile. You can use shearing to create a new light weight, smoother garment from an older long-haired coat.

- Grooving is a way of shearing which then makes a stripe design. The stripes or grooves are different in width and depth, and the end-result resembles corduroy. Grooving is also known as cording.

- Another name for natural lamb fur is shearling. The leather half is typically sueded and worn on the exterior with the fur side turned inward for warmth. Due to the suede leather techniques used today to produce Shearling coats and jackets, they are not as heavy as when first manufactured.

- Knitted Fur is made of fur yarn. The technique for manufacturing this knittable yarn is to combine thin cut-outs of fur with cotton yarn or silk. A plethora of things can be created from crocheting or weaving fur yarn. There are a number of knitted products which are actually machine washable.

* Facts about Fur that is sheared will in fact keep you as warm as fur that has not been sheared. Fur typically consists of two main layers; the underfur or Ground hair -bottom layer-, closest to the skin, made of shorter and denser wool hairs and the Guard hair -top layer made of longer straighter hairs-. Shearing just cuts some of the Guard hair, however the insulating Ground hair accounts for the fur's warm thickness. Guard Hair gives the various furs their different characteristics and contains most of a furs pigmentation. Awn hair is the name for the middle layer contained on some furs.

- Generally, long hair furs do not provide any more warmth than short hair furs. Ground hair determines the warmth of a fur.

- Female mink furs are typically lighter in weight, softer, silkier, shinier and more pliable than male mink furs. Fur from female minks is utilized more frequently in designs with features of draping and softer shapes. A skin from a male mink can be used for a different item with a less supple style. Nonetheless, mink goods that are made from males are not unavoidably cheaper than mink goods made from females.

- The best and most exquisite fur products do not contain any leather. The greater the amount of leather utilized to bind the fur strips, the lower the worth of the fur apparel.

* Up to date Fur Industry and Market Trends - In the 1980's and 1990's the anti fur campaign damaged the fur industry with negativity. The fur industry is recovering fast.

- Three main factors have contributed to the renewed growth of the industry: an unprecedented increase in demand for fur products by the growing middle class, or nouveaux riches. There is a decline in China and Russia as for the fur industry which use to produce around 15% of the USSR's yearly revenue as well as the western fashion industry's rediscovery of all fur garments.

- The Russian manufactured fur industry today produces 7 times fewer furs than in the 1980's. With no state support, Russia is now at the bottom of the list of international fur-manufacturers, trailing behind North American and European manufacturers. In the late 1980s, Russian produced thirty-five percent (35%) of the world's fur, and their production now has dropped to no more than three to four percent. Russia is responsible for manufacturing 30% of furs world wide. This is partly due to the drop in domestic production, but high domestic demand for quality furs.

- China has also become a large imported of furs, buying wild pelts from North America and manufacturing them into garments to ship back to North America and, in the most part, to Russia. Large-scale production in fur farms in China, which receive state support, adversely impact the Russian fur industry. When the Soviet Union collapsed many of the fur farms in Russia went down with it. The Russian fur manufacturers are not able to compete with the western players as they are not finding avenues to reduce their expenses.

- The fur trade in Russia may have their struggle intensified further by recent happenings in Georgia. In the wake of Russia's intervention in Georgia, billions of dollars of foreign investment were withdrawn from the economy. The places involved in this situation are considered some of the biggest fur purchasers worldwide.

- The best marketplaces that sell luxury fur garments nowadays are Dubai, Shanghai and Moscow.

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