Happy Valentine's Day!

[furtech]

The dogs wish you their luv from their beloved mulch pile. Hope everybody had a good day!

And for you cynics and bitter singles, get a dog! Or a cat. Fish. Anything! It helps-- really!

Comments

[jovino.livejournal.com]

I know this is way off topic, but I really appreciated your presentation at FC this year. I arrived late, but I managed to get there in time for your talk about the NFT stretch furs. I was really surprised at the end when I got to inspect them. They were much different from what I was expecting -- something radically different from the standard fake fur weave. The small runs, and the precision fur naps are quite amazing as well.

Thanks so much for bringing them in!

I have been in contact with a Chinese company that can make fake fur to your specification. They have, of course, a 1000 yard minimum which is quite a bit of fur. I'm really hoping that some day our business will be big enough to be able to have something like that made.

How does this fit in? I remember you saying that I might not get much out of your presentation, but I actually did. Your talk actually helped me understand the manufacturing process a lot better.

Again, I would like to thank you for taking the time to present this information.

Cheers!
And, happy valentine's day.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Off topic=no problem!

You were the late-comer? You should have introduced yourself! You do great work and contribute a lot to the fursuit group here on LJ: I love putting faces to names and chatting/talking shop.

I'm glad you got so much out of the talk: I focused more time on NFT this year and I think it worked out better (than the scattershot coverage I used to do). Because of NFT's high cost, I would hate to have someone break the bank to buy it, and then be terribly disappointed when it wasn't what they thought it would be.

Yeah-- unless you're making a million plush or an army of a type of mascot, it's almost impossible to consider the minimums of the commercial fur mills. One possibility is to work with a distributor like Monterey Mills: some people on the list did this a few years ago with the red fox fur and that got the minimum down to a few hundred yards, which was do-able. Who knows? With the world economy the way it is, maybe they'd consider lower runs.

[jovino.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. I didn't want to disrupt your class. I cane up afterwards, but you were constantly engaged, and then you had to run out the door. We'll catch up soon.

If we can get down to several hundred yards, we could totally do that. Our last production project required 10 rolls of fleece, so we're getting pretty close to this already. Then again, we're making those huge kigurumi suits, so they eat up a lot of fabric.

We're actually going to be exhibiting at WonderCon, booth 221. If you have the time, please come say hi.