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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Fates Fickle Finger on January 30, 2014, 11:07:36 PM
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Hello all, I am looking to do a teddy bear fur mat. Has anyone got a good source for faux fur/teddy bear fur that would be suitable and readily available in the UK? Thanks in advance
FFF
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Thatch roofs?
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Something like the Fabric Warehouse (or any place that sells fabric/cloth, etc), maybe?
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If you have a Boyes store near you they often have faux fur in their haberdashery section.
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If you have a Boyes store near you they often have faux fur in their haberdashery section.
(http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/pict/310274914334_22.jpg)
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You could buy a tatty toy from a charity shop and eviscerate it.
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(http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/pict/310274914334_22.jpg)
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My Oxford English Dictionary refers to a haberdasher as a seller of small articles of dress. I'm sure it could include hats? :) Did you just happen upon that image? :D
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After a 4' x 4' for a gaming table like this
http://www.elladan.de/065%20Tutorial%20Furmat/065.htm
I would have to "skin" a lot of teddy bears!! :D
FFF
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A decent cloth shop should be able to help. That said I've had a look around to here and not found anything useful yet that would't cost an arm and a leg (of fore-mentioned teddy bear).
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70 x 100 cm £7.60 inc postage
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mohair-Fur-Fabric-Dense-15mm-Pile-Mohair-bears-Teddy-Bear-Making-OOAK-/330956187872?pt=UK_Dolls_Bears_RL&var=&hash=item4d0e86a8e0 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mohair-Fur-Fabric-Dense-15mm-Pile-Mohair-bears-Teddy-Bear-Making-OOAK-/330956187872?pt=UK_Dolls_Bears_RL&var=&hash=item4d0e86a8e0)
worth a punt maybe
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You could buy a tatty toy from a charity shop and eviscerate it.
Oh you beast of a man!
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My Oxford English Dictionary refers to a haberdasher as a seller of small articles of dress. I'm sure it could include hats? :) Did you just happen upon that image? :D
I keep forgetting that usage. Over here, a haberdasher typically refers only to a hatmaker.
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I keep forgetting that usage. Over here, a haberdasher typically refers only to a hatmaker.
lol
I'd think of that as a milliner, but who knows these days.
I think you should change your profile pic to the furry hat one, it's quality!
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lol
I'd think of that as a milliner, but who knows these days.
I think you should change your profile pic to the furry hat one, it's quality!
That's a modiste you are thinking of, surely.
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That's a modiste you are thinking of, surely.
Modiste would certainly fit the picture better!
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(http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/pict/310274914334_22.jpg)
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This is another proof that fashion designers ever so often out to see how far they can push the envelope. That hat cannot but have been put together with any other purpose than to see how far a hot shit but vapid model is prepared to go while thinking he/she is making an important fashion statement.
It declare a fatwa against that hat. It is our sacred duty as gamers to slay that thing, spray it green and turn it to something table top.
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Oh, I'm fairly sure that's not the product of any real fashion designer in the sense that you're thinking. It's the sort of thing that's marketed for ravers/club kids and wannabee "pick-up artists". Especially with the whole image: gold chain, "velvet" coat w/ cheetah print collar...
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Pretty sure that was from a Halloween "pimp" costume.
THIS is a modern fashion disaster:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O-pdKq9fITI/Tz2kKlCts-I/AAAAAAAAC_o/rJOZcE_3QFo/s1600/MarcJacobs-rtw-fw2012-11_000012450793.jpg_carousel_parties.jpg)
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Have you tried Hobbycraft bud? The last time I was in there was rolls of the stuff!
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70 x 100 cm £7.60 inc postage
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mohair-Fur-Fabric-Dense-15mm-Pile-Mohair-bears-Teddy-Bear-Making-OOAK-/330956187872?pt=UK_Dolls_Bears_RL&var=&hash=item4d0e86a8e0
The drop down prices it at 55.30 :(
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Not sure where you are based but I bought a roll of teddy bear fur recently in Salisbury for a 6' x 4' table for about £25.00. Link is here.
http://www.fabricland.co.uk/salisbury.htm
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To save you a trip do not try The Range or Dunelm - neither stock it (Scunthorpe).
I found it in Boyes (long hair) and a local material shop - neither as cheap as I wanted to pay to try so gave up :-[
As for the statement:
I would have to "skin" a lot of teddy bears!! :D
Where do I send the psychiatrists bill? The thought of this upset the whole family (esp my sweet innocent daughter who at nearly 24 still loves hers more than me) and we need a serious amount of support and counselling.
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You could write to Boris Johnson and ask where he got the piece he wears on his bonce. Thrifty and distinctive, albeit not very modish.
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I got mine when a fabric shop closed down. It was half price and mint green, but still not cheap. I can't understand it, I mean if you're not using it for wargaming what else are you going to use it for? :D