keccers
@keccers.eth
When you lose your email job, consider knitting sweaters for people out of their dogs’ hair. There’s more demand than you would ever believe Sanke horribly mispriced at $1500 a sweater and has a 4 year backlog. Double the price and take the jobs she can’t do https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/style/dog-hair-knitting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.smHI.sabuT2Ii3EV_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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codon
@codon
So... This doesn't work with all kinds of dog hair. Only shedding dogs and the softer under coat dogs with hair and not fur make really gross itchy yarn.. I maybe tried once when I saw that someone I bought yarn from was selling dog skeins 🤣
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keccers
@keccers.eth
What breed did you try with?! The article (of course?) provides some of this color 😂 “She is quick to volunteer her preferred breeds for sweaters — Samoyeds, huskies, Great Pyrenees and golden retrievers. (Cat hair is also usable, though a little more difficult to spin, finer and shorter, and often mixed with other fibers.) “There is no such thing as anything unspinnable,” Ms. Crolius said in an interview from her home in Chautauqua, N.Y., “except Mexican hairless.””
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codon
@codon
Haha yes I read it! I was wondering though if she had a solution if people were doing it for nostalgia... And didn't have a choice on the breed. I tried it with my terrier-poodle thinking he was soft but nope.. felt like an itchy rope of human hair
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keccers
@keccers.eth
This to me says there’s room for innovation and that you could give people the same nostalgia kick while creating fiber blend that is not 100% pet hair 😜
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