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Offline flags_of_war

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Faux Fur
« on: June 01, 2015, 02:06:08 PM »
Has anyone found a cheap supplier of Faux Fur at all? Everyone that ive found is quite expensive if planning to do a battle mat  o_o

Offline Rob_bresnen

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2015, 03:30:44 PM »
I think it is expensive, but it will last for ever.
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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2015, 03:59:48 PM »
Have you done the rounds of your local haberdashery shops? I paid about £10 (it was either £7 or £13, I can't remember) for 1.5m sq.
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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2015, 12:59:10 PM »
Have you done the rounds of your local haberdashery shops? I paid about £10 (it was either £7 or £13, I can't remember) for 1.5m sq.

Ill check out out mate

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2015, 02:06:01 PM »
Ill check out out mate

You'll probably be the only bloke in there!  lol

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2015, 02:06:53 PM »
You'll probably be the only bloke in there!  lol

I studied Furniture design so i was used to going into these places when i was younger to make my new pieces ha.

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2015, 02:18:03 PM »
 :)

You'll probably know this from your furniture design but there are at least two types of faux fur.  The one I bought can be brushed in any direction and doesn't shed fibres too easily at a cut edge. I had also looked at another type which had a definite flow to the direction of the fibres and which it shed easily.

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2015, 03:03:07 PM »
:)

You'll probably know this from your furniture design but there are at least two types of faux fur.  The one I bought can be brushed in any direction and doesn't shed fibres too easily at a cut edge. I had also looked at another type which had a definite flow to the direction of the fibres and which it shed easily.

It's not something that i ever used mate so thanks for the info :)

I have a few shops around my work place in Glasgow so ill check them out when im not in Edinburgh next week.

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2015, 06:46:54 PM »
We got our Faux Fur from this UK company
http://www.craft-fabrics.co.uk/index.htm
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Offline WitchfinderGeneral

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2015, 07:21:54 PM »
I saw some at IKEA. Price was okay. The shape was "natural" so it would need some cutting but the colour was almost white so it will take any other colour well.
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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2015, 10:28:33 AM »
market stalls are good too!

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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2015, 01:32:29 PM »
Aye, charity shops with cushions or clothes in fur are a good source, but off-cuts are often at knock-down prices in fabric stores.
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Re: Faux Fur
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2015, 04:05:42 PM »
I do have two cats  ;D

 

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