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richardzane:
Thought some of you might be interested in seeing a really warm rabbit skin blanket
I made some years ago.
Its made from spiral cutting rabbit skins and wrapping the fur strips around cords. the cords are then "woven" together with finer cord.
The blanket project was a long project considering I started with four rabbits...fenced in a large pen where they could do their thing.
They definitely did their thing...There would be times I go in to feed the chickens and I would hear a rumble...only to turn and
see about 60 rabbits running straight at me.... like an old Japanese horror flick. When it was butchering day my wife went to town,
while i went to town with the 22. and stacked em like cordwood...and had a slick system to reduce them all to ziplockbags
including wings,thighs,backs and scraps were ground into burger from which we made spagettii and hareballs.

when my daughter got tired of taking care of her little shaggy flop rabbit and we introduced it to the herd, genetics produced some interesting results.
often one rabbit would be seen with ONE ear up and one ear down...and then there were the shaggy UPeared rabbits.
When the hares began to have their eyes so close together they were cross-eyed, I decided the project oughta be over.

This blanket took approx. 200 hides and weighed a ton.(some cords were double wrapped) My wife said she couldn't breathe, and of course
with rabbit skins up by your face there's always the spitting of stray hairs..which is distracting from sleep there on the bed...so it became an "outdoors" blanket.
It somehow picked up some mothy critters unfortunately, and even in a cedar chest was ruined....but oh, well...it was a good learning experience.

HoBow:
Nice story and cool blanket!

JW_Halverson:
Hareballs!!!!  I am still trying to get the pinot noir wiped off the computer after reading that!

I am fond of rabbit for table fare.  It's very healthy, but I ate so much I developed an allergy.  It doesn't make me sick, but it des make me jumpy. 

Cool blanket!

JackCrafty:
Neat!  I like the part about spitting stray hair....  heheh    ;D

vinemaplebows:
Got a few hundred furs here as well, although I never made anything that nice from any of them! :) Have another 20 to butcher on monday.

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