Cats and Kilts

[thistlelass]

Tried that once, didn't work, at least not with our two domestic short-hairs. However, I have been told that there is a breed of Scandinavian cat whose hair has the proper scales to be spinnable. Anyway, just ask any cat, they AREsuperior beings!

Even short hair from animals can be spun-it might yeild less than close to the skin yarn, but it is spinnable. I spun short cat hair at a spinning conference last year as well as dog hair and even some New Zealand Opossum fur-very, very short staple,...a pain to spin, but spinnable all the same. Persian fur and others of that sort work well however and are almost as soft at Angora. They make nice warm sweaters, hats and scarves but a bit too fuzzy and girly for kilt hose.

[Makeitstop]

More power to folks who have use for felines... I have none.

They have uses...

[Dirk Skene]

I've been instructed by the 2 cats that I serve to assure you that they are most definitely discerning, superior beings!

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I can tell you are a real cat person

Anytime I sit mine comes & plops down on me. I rotate my SP "comfey kilts" to the washer as they get all harry

[meinfs]

Beautiful cat! My siamese, Nanny MacPhee, "inspects" my great kilt everytime I lay it out to pleat. This makes pleating it difficult...pulling the material with a cat walking on it. She also thoroughly inspected the two skunk sporrans I made.

Thank you. He's a Singapura cat. Short-haired, one of the smallest cat breeds. Looks like a little lion. Really big-eyed unless he's inspecting kilt fabric... and NOT on prozac.

[Carolina Kiltman]

Even short hair from animals can be spun-it might yeild less than close to the skin yarn, but it is spinnable. I spun short cat hair at a spinning conference last year as well as dog hair and even some New Zealand Opossum fur-very, very short staple,...a pain to spin, but spinnable all the same. Persian fur and others of that sort work well however and are almost as soft at Angora. They make nice warm sweaters, hats and scarves but a bit too fuzzy and girly for kilt hose.

What happened was I took a large bag of the undercoat the cats shed at the beginning of an Arkansas summer to a spinner in my college. She did manage to spin it into a beautiful pale golden soft yarn. I was delighted, but she said "not so quick" and tugged the two ends of the yarn, it immediately fell apart into just cat hair. My only attempt and experience with it. I do not know about all types of cats, we usually get ours from the shelter when needed.

[Mr. bone]

Mine said the exact same thing. And then wanted to be fed...

...then they sent a text message to my 4 and they wrote up a very nice press release for me to broadcast stating the same thing.

[Q-Piper]

Of cats, they have uses...

Hmmm, I wonder if my Brother will let me take the cats to a Taxidemist to get Sporrans made.

Calico, Maine Coon, Tabby etc etc....

[SteveB]

I grew up under the watchful eyes of four Maine Coons. Our household never had less than four cats in it at any time. In Maine winters the wool kilt was further warmed by two or three Maine Coons on the aprons. I very rarely got permission to leave the chair while I was kilted. They basically ignored me in any kind of trousers. Didn't have poly-viscous or Acrylic way back then. If my sister had on a wool skirt, we would have two cats each. If she was in jeans and I was kilted, I would have up to four ( very large ) cats on my lap.

[thistlelass]

What happened was I took a large bag of the undercoat the cats shed at the beginning of an Arkansas summer to a spinner in my college. She did manage to spin it into a beautiful pale golden soft yarn. I was delighted, but she said "not so quick" and tugged the two ends of the yarn, it immediately fell apart into just cat hair. My only attempt and experience with it. I do not know about all types of cats, we usually get ours from the shelter when needed.

Ah, yes, unfortunately short hair/fur/wool will fall apart if not carded with something else or spun wet and worsted (tightly spun)-so I see what you mean. The short furs I spun were carded with another fiber, although the "Possum" was just spun into wool as an add in fiber. It is my opinion that one should avail themselves of kittehs from shelters when needed. That's the right thing to do-and they do have the sweetest ones.

[Mr. bone]

Jett, (pictured above left) loves the UK workmans. All cat fans must go to www.icanhascheezeburger.com