Monster Fur Update

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since a couple of other people posted on my previous post that they too were looking for monster fur, I thought i would update with some sources i found. perhaps this can go in the "memories" section if the mod thinks it would help anyone else. i was a little surprised i had to beat the bushes so hard given how popular monster fur is nowadays - i guess if you don't happen to design clothes and frequent wholesale fashion shops or conventions where this stuff gets sold by the yard, you're kind of out of luck...

first of all, if you want a solid or possibly an animal print (although i think the prints were mostly shorter pile - i'm thinking of "monster" as being 3 inches or more) this place is good. i e-mailed them to make sure they didn't have any multi- or blended color monster fur, and they said all they had were the grey frosted type blends on their site. I was looking for something a little more colorful so that didn't really help.

http://www.mendels.com/fauxfur.html


after a LOT of digging (and looking at about 100 suppliers who (a) were not located in the US and/or wouldn't ship to US, (b) wouldn't sell you fur unless you had them make it into a garment, (b) had wholesale-only websites with no pictures, which is extremely inconvenient to those of us who just want a small lot) i found this place in PA, which seems to have a clue about what I am looking for, multicolored long-pile fur-wise:

http://www.imstuffedfur.com

a little pricey, but i've sent them an e-mail to see what else they have that's not on their website. they do have some multi 3 inch pile furs on there so I'm assuming they probably have more colors or can get more colors.

there's also an option of just spot-dyeing or tie-dyeing your own because you can get a dye product for synthetics from mendels and also there's something called SynTint that bearycheap.com sells, but i've heard that it's hard to get a dye to produce a deep color on a synthetic fur and usually you will end up with a weaker pastel. so if possible i'd rather just buy one that's been woven up as a multi.

anyway, like i said, hope this helps someone besides me.