Wolverine Fur Sporran

[MacBean]

I was thinking of them as well (having bought hides from them in the past).

I was also going to mention Craigie Originals, as they've offered wolverine before, however I have to ask: are they still in business???
I just did a search & couldn't locate their website

There was a thread about Craigie Originals a few months back. I was surfing their web site one day, and the next it was gone, and hasn't come back.

[AKScott]

For those of you interested, the US Fish and Wildlife Service maintains the list of endangered species for the United States. The current list has over 618 species listed. This is what the site says about Wolverines:

Wolverine to be Designated a Candidate for Endangered Species Protection

Wolverines found in the contiguous United States warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, but a rulemaking to propose the species for protection is precluded by the need to address other higher priority species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. The wolverine will be added to the list of candidates for Endangered Species Act protection, where its status will be renewed annually.

Here is the link: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/

I didn't know this. There is a very healthy population outside the contiguous US. In general wolverines have a large home range and they will eat about anything that moves.

http://www.wolverinefoundation.org/kids/kids_sa.htm

I suspect that maintaining a wolverine population in the northern contiguous Rocky mountains will be about as hard as operating a ski resort in the Brooks range.

[AKScott]

Spent a little time today talking to the owner of the store I linked earlier in this thread.

She doesn't deal in protected species at all.

I didn't read about the wolverine being possibly/eventually endangered in the lower 48 until after I talked to her.

She sells full pelts only. She will ship telephone orders to USA addresses only.

But I did have one idea. Besides mukluks and slippers and mittens, the store also makes parka ruffs for home craftspeople making their own parkas.

The ruffs she sells are 4" wide by 30" long. It is a two inch strip of "any fox or Finncoon" sewn along the 30" seam to a two inch wide piece of wolverine. On a parka you put that seam right up against you skin so the fox keeps your skin warm, with the wolverine showing on the outside. The unique thing about wolverine fur is it doesn't collect rime, frozen condensation from your breath.

Image: rime on my fox fur hat and beard last winter.




Here is a little more than half of a parka ruff, this one is FinnCoon and wolverine. These are $195 each in any fox fur (or FinnCoon) you want - but it occurs to me you could cut it in half and sew the two halves back together ending up with a 8" wide by 15" long piece.



I didn't think to ask if she could make one double wide, 2" of wolverine, 4" of fox and then another 2" of wolverine 30" long. She has an impressive sewing machine for making these, but the throat isn't very deep. If she can do that and you and a buddy can agree on color choice you could maybe just cut the thing into two 8" wide x 15" long pieces when it comes in.

I doubt she would make one at 8x15 inches, she is cutting from pelts at least 30" long to make these and using the scaps to make slippers and stuff. She might make a standard one, cut it in half and then sew into an 8 x 15 inch piece, but there would definitely be a fee for that.

She did say she would cut a single 4"x30" piece of wolverine (more than $195), for the price of an 8x30" piece you might as well buy a full pelt, becuase you get a face, a tail and four feet with it.

[Hermes]

Thanks for all the research AKScott - sorry for not replying sooner, but I got caught up with all sorts of holiday stuff. I've actually arranged to have a Ferguson Britt sporran of wolverine fur made for me through the STM.

[Burly Brute]

Am I the only person who'se first thought involved yellow, blue, and sharp claws?

Actually my first thought was of this sporran seller at the Tucson, Arizona celtic festival who kept calling the fur sporrans "furry man bags." It just doesn't get any better than that...lol

[azwildcat96]

Actually my first thought was of this sporran seller at the Tucson, Arizona celtic festival who kept calling the fur sporrans "furry man bags." It just doesn't get any better than that...lol

I'll see your "furry man bag" and raise you a "furry xxxx bag" (as Robin Williams puts it in one of his stand-up acts about the kilt.

[artificer]

I'll see your "furry man bag" and raise you a "furry xxxx bag" (as Robin Williams puts it in one of his stand-up acts about the kilt.

Or there is Michael McIntyre's "Birth of the Kilt" where it's a hairy **** bag.
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[azwildcat96]

Or there is Michael McIntyre's "Birth of the Kilt" where it's a hairy **** bag.
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I stand corrected...it was Michael McIntyre witht he "hairy **** bag"...Robin Williams has the one about the invention of golf, equally hillarious!

[AKScott]

Thanks for all the research AKScott - sorry for not replying sooner, but I got caught up with all sorts of holiday stuff. I've actually arranged to have a Ferguson Britt sporran of wolverine fur made for me through the STM.

Looking forward to seeing pictures when it comes in. If there had been more people like Matt in North Carolina I probably wouldn't have moved away.